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  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldConvenience is relative
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    22 days ago

    You’re being absurd. Cleanliness was not what it is today. Even in war marches more died from water born disease as recent as 1800s just trudging rather than war itself. This is our history and how some of our lineages may have been entirely terminated.

    Bring oblivious to this is actually really insulting for some who know very well what it took for our own lineage just to travel to safety.

    It absolutely was not a walk in the park like you’re selling it. Some people were hunted for years before getting safe.



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    22 days ago

    Are we assuming a 6 month journey didnt come with exhaustion and certain death from starvation, pneumonias, dysentery, disease, infections, freezing and trauma from attacks on the way ? In cooler moist climates a mere cut could be life or death back then. There was not any penicillin.

    Have you not heard the horror stories even of today’s boat slaves who die packed in?

    I think video games filled with light quests of picking moss might be deluding a few people with how the medieval times actually were.

    Open a book.