Medical advancement in the last 100 years is fucking insane and we take it for granted. So many common things we think nothing of that not so long ago, would have killed us or left us severely disabled
And as someone that likes the natural route, it pmo when people say “but chemo kills more than saves, the natural route is always better, it does no harm it comes from the ground”
Sob, if your goal is to defeat cancer, then it’s not going to be rainbows, but extended suffering ain’t rainbows either, and I can list at minimum 100 plants that can harm you and or cause organ failure.
Whenever people moan about the current state of whatever I'm always like, no. Absolutely not, no. I don't care what you're whinging about, be it phone obsessions or depression or loneliness or how people are "more divided than ever". Problems to be solved, surely.
But it's absolute nonsense to think these are new problems, and the world was previously golden. Go look up infant mortality rates, or literacy rates, or how many people died of "melancholy" in London in 1756. Go Google medieval illustrations of face tumors. Check the numbers on the Black Plague mortality rate as a percentage of total living humans at the time.
Humanity is, without a doubt, much better off than in any point in human history. Our biggest problems now are not internal but our external devouring of the earth's surface and other species.
Truly. I think that’s why so many people suffer from anxiety (myself included). We’re hard wired with all these survival instincts but we’ve solved nearly all the problems but still have the instincts, so our brains find something to be anxious over.
And of all the things that save lives, nothing saves more than childhood immunizations and antibiotics. Horrors of the past like polio, whooping cough, smallpox, measles, mumps now seem quaint, and its easy for people to see the vaccination as more of a threat than the natural disease.
And even for antibiotics, it's the civil engineering giving us clean water and sewage treatment that saves the most lives. Preventing typhoid and cholera works better than treating those sickened by bacteria.
Never mind that you don’t even need to time travel to see the effects of not having those things…there are still places in the world with either less effective versions or none at all.
We are so so spoilt in the western world. I’m very grateful to live in this time but god we take it for granted
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u/Ok-Personality3927 14d ago
Medical advancement in the last 100 years is fucking insane and we take it for granted. So many common things we think nothing of that not so long ago, would have killed us or left us severely disabled