I keep thinking of bad things and then say “wow I bet Hexbear would like this thing” and then I smugly smile while shit leaks out of my pants. Both ends.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        It dipped significantly but this graph is at a scale that includes Tsarist Russia where people were serfs with no access to medicine in a pre-industrial society. Having some extremely basic stuff like food and vaccines makes it virtually impossible to get that low again (unless you’re being invaded by Nazis).

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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        Have you seen the scale? There’s a 5 year drop starting in 1991. It’s not as massive as the gains made under communism, but it’s a very significant reduction in life expectancy.