Got to make it seem after billions in research and decades in the making, they FINALLY found the cure to cancer.
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But hasn't the average age of death increased over time?
I'm convinced that number has gone up mainly due to cleaner water and a better understanding of nutrition.
Medicine has helped of course ... Things like appendicitis and strept throat were often a death sentence. Today they can be cured with minor surgery and/or antibiotics.
Medicine today is a totally different animal than what it was just 50 years ago of course. It's fucked now .. not all of it, but so much of it is ravaged by woke political bullshit.
My definition is not having to eat spoiled meat and drink unclean water. Add having the availability of fruits and veggies year round.
My parents are nearly 90 and they grew up in the 1930s/40s. They also smoked. I reckon both will hit 90 and maybe 100. I just took them shopping and both walk around the supermarket just fine. Luckily they gave up smoking in the late 90s but still
Yes….but. Technology has allowed the workforce to use machinery that is labour saving. Manual labour was cruel. Even children were put to work in conditions worse than adults in some cases. You cannot compare say workers in a factory, with long hours, 6 days a week etc to today where machines ease back breaking work. If you surveyed those in say India working in in hard manual work, the death rate would be no different to those in 1900.
They say sitting is the new smoking !