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#a world without vaccines sanitation anesthetics antibiotics antivirals blood transfusions
clodiuspulcher
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once again everyone thinking ‘past good’ is foolishly and arrogantly unable to image themselves as among the 50% of children who did not live into adulthood
#maybe im just biomedicine pilled but please god get a grip
#before about eighty years ago every single person with type one diabetes died
#they just died as children or adolescents or sometimes young adults
#there was nothing you could do except watch your child die a slow and painful death
#waste away into nothing
#dead certain that like the richest thirteenth century noblewoman or whatever would give up all her wealth and luxury
#to live in a world where smallpox had been eradicated and she didn't have to fear for her childrens lives
#kim wexler voice picture it... REALLY picture it
#a world without vaccines sanitation anesthetics antibiotics antivirals blood transfusions
#chemotherapy immunotherapy radiation treatment x rays CT scans MRIS
#without a basic knowledge of how diseases are spread and where they come from without antimalarias and antihelminthics
#without any sort of meaningful medical testing without surgeries or anything like the ability to medically transition it
#you literally cannot imagine it
#and of course the fact that our medical advancements aren't available to everyone across the world because of capitalism is horrific
#it is nothing if not a crime against humanity
#but that problem won't be solved by pretending cornelia mother of the gracchi wouldn't have chosen to live
#in a world where 9 of her 12 children didn't die if she could
#9 out of 12 children. god. really picture it. can you?
#i can't and i am thankful for that
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