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I think people suffering the Black Death in their villages would have told us to get a fucking life.....
oh you are wicked.
Yes 'pandemics' and viruses must have carried off so many people in the past at young ages. I think only the rich or isolated lived until their 80s. Others seemed to pop off before they were 50.
Even a cut could kill you without antibiotics. Must have been so hard.
What about pain? I now worship Sister Morphine who smiled upon me several times in hospital recently (love how doctors,nurses now seem to believe pain relief is a right)
What if you had a toothache or appendicitis etc in the 1700s ?