kottke.orgAn Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) https://kottke.org/25/12/an-astonishing-graph
ThePiper@kottke I have an interest in military history. A guerrilla war was fought in the arid Karoo between the British and the settlers. Often the only indication of minor skirmishes are the graves of soldiers in small towns.
In the graveyard of Sutherland lie a mother and her 7 children. The graves are from the early 1900's and none of the children made it past the age of 2. It vividly brought home to me the advances that medicine and baby care has made in the last 100 years.