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[-] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

More dysentery also.. like a LOT more dysentery. So much so that people often believed their soul exists in their lower abdomen because when you feel pain there you die shortly after.

Wow that's a lot of dysentery.

Sorry your point lacks proper context based on reality.

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

That's really a western Europe thing and American thing. Even then no where near as much as you're suggesting, not for the last 10k years or so at least. Beer/wine taking over and replacing water drinking unironically eliminated most of that, and in other cultures sanitation prevented it. English serfs had a lot of dysentery though, since they were too stupid to use Roman infrastructure.

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