Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[haxxiy]

Conina said:

haxxiy said:

I don't think most people realize how physiologically messed up we are compared to our ancestors (not folks from the Middle Ages, I mean, but true Homo sapiens hunter gatherers). It's like comparing wolves to pugs.

Wolves with a life expectancy ~35 years (men) and ~30 years (women).

In most centuries except 20th and 21th century I'd probably already dead.

That is not how life expectancy works. It is mainly neonatal mortality that bring the average down, not that people dropped dead en masse in their twenties or thirties. In almost all periods of history, if you make it to one you can expect to live to your fifties or more.

Anyway, this is escaping the scope of this thread.