you get a scratch, you die in pain from infection a week later
A simpler time
Submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Avicenna@programming.dev 2 months ago
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s part of “no growing old 😃”
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 months ago
Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Bob Marley died from gangrene following a football injury on his toe.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 months ago
Tennis: Not even once.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn’t anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t die from minor untreated infections - that’s what our immune system is for.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
If you’re lucky, the scratch didn’t come with the predator’s fangs on your throat
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean you ~can~ shit standing up today…
Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Waffle stomping?
grranibal@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Blue waffle.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I imagined they would be squatting for shits
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 2 months ago
It still counts as standing cuz you’re on your feet.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
What’s stopping you from shitting standing up now?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 months ago
Low-fiber diet I guess.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Failure at hunting for a couple of days means you die of starvation
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 months ago
IIRC hunter-gatherers had such varied sources of food and strong food-sharing networks that starvation wasn’t so common as one would expect
gibson@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah I mean it worked well enough to bootstrap to agriculture multiple times around the world
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Looking at Trump once tells me our ancestors got lucky quite often.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
If you have enough kids. You don’t need to be lucky
The vast majority of strategies thus far
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Move to a large river, lake or the sea and fish up, ezpz
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To be fair, you can still shit standing up
spizzat2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
And (almost) nothing makes sense again!
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
And it’s probably still just as ineffective
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could start a “men’s retreat” and charge conservatives $18,000/week to do this to themselves.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You can murder the neighbor and steal his wife… (Reminder for anyone disliking civilization)
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The number of people in here who think that pre-historical bodies were as frail as city bodies, is very high. The only thing city bodies do well is resist the fettid creep surrounding their lifestyle.
Outside people didn’t get sepsis and starve all the time. In that habitat that city people find terrifying, they thrive. They are very very susceptible to the top tier viruses, bacteria, alcohol, sugar, entertainment, and control structures bred by thousands of generations of natural selection in the people pile though.
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Come to Los angeles. Plenty of people here are still living this simple life.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually most of your friends would be gatherers
pip@piefed.social 2 months ago
Just a fancy name for ‘hunters of fruits and berries!’
Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I got a cousin, lost a finger to a jackfruit but he still managed to take the sumbitch down. Dude wears its skin as a helmet now.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk about you but nothing makes sense to me nowdays too.