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[โ€“] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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

Wow that's a lot of dysentery.

Sorry your point lacks proper context based on reality.

[โ€“] finderscult@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour 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.