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Single Payer Health Systems

soldierant

(7,903 posts)

8. Agreed.

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 12, 2023, 02:35 PM

Nov 2023

If I'm not mistaken, yhere's a video about it on one of t You Tube's history channels - I want to say "Chronicle" but am not 100% sure - explaining that when endemic here prior to Columbian contact it was much miler - almost analogous to the common cold. But it mutated right about the time of that contact and turned into the horror we see in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.- not just a killer, but a destroyer even of the liv es it spared.

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Alarming surge in medieval disease in babies as health system dubbed a failure [View all] ck4829 Nov 2023 OP

Horrifying! pandr32 Nov 2023 #1

Not exactly Medieval. Voltaire2 Nov 2023 #2

Self deleted airplaneman Nov 2023 #5

"medieval" was an odd choice. TwilightZone Nov 2023 #6

Indeed as it was both common and deadly right up until the 1930s. Voltaire2 Nov 2023 #9

Agreed. soldierant Nov 2023 #8

A single payer health system anciano Nov 2023 #3

Nonsense IbogaProject Nov 2023 #10

Thanks for taking the time to reply anciano Nov 2023 #11

Medieval? It was pretty common in N.Y.C. ( and probably in London, too) marybourg Nov 2023 #4

Antibiotics made public health departments complacent Warpy Nov 2023 #7