black-crested-jaybird: fluffmugger: memehumor: or maybe because science back then wasn’t advan
black-crested-jaybird: fluffmugger: memehumor: or maybe because science back then wasn’t advanced enough to understand those illnesses I’m fuvking howling because of all the dumbarse hills to die on, fucking SIDS, allergies, COLIC AND CANCER Maybe it’s also because now that we don’t have to worry as much about measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox, medical researchers and care providers have time to work on some of those other things. I hate comparisons like this that assume just because we didn’t know about or used different words for or had no treatment for things in the past, they somehow didn’t exist. The past is not a magical country where everything was different, and talking about something, medical or otherwise, does not bring it into being. It just makes us aware of it. Knowledge can sometimes be a burden but ignorance can, and does, kill. Also, in addition to the things @fluffmugger said about this being a weird hill to die on, ear tubes are a treatment, not a condition or disease. I guess the OP really misses the good old days of chronic, untreated ear infections. The ear tubes actually made me SERIOUSLY piss myself because i literally had a childhood friend have ear tubes put in. That was in 1983. Two years before my millennial husband was born. -- source link