It really seems to cook people's brains that the reason the median death rate used to be in the 30s wasn't because you'd die of "old age" in your 30s, it's because so many died between 0-4 that they pushed the median down, which is why childhood vaccines caused it to more than double.
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Catherine Frieman
STEMthebleeding
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
