Wife: GM Me: GM, why do you think people used to die of dysentery? Did they not know to drink water? Seems very preventable. Wife: This is what you wake up thinking about? Me: like how come lots of people used to die of dysentery? And now no one dies of dysentery? Wife: I thought you’d be thinking “wow what a nice Sunday morning”. Me: like just drink water you know?

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npub18mm5...k5fn 10 months ago
🤣🤣🤣 you sound like my son. He wakes up asking the most bizarre questions.
People used to just be drunk all the time because water could kill them. Even kids were given weaker versions of mead, wine and beer. This was one of the first examples of purification of water. Can you imagine a world where people were just hammered all the time?
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EchDel 10 months ago
The water was foul. Drink mead they said.
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EchDel 10 months ago
Mead is mild. When you water it down a bit.
This is the mind of an NT. INTUITIVE THINKER. Our minds are endlessly curious about everything.
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Wife: GM Me: GM, why do you think people used to die of dysentery? Did they not know to drink water? Seems very preventable. Wife: This is what you wake up thinking about? Me: like how come lots of people used to die of dysentery? And now no one dies of dysentery? Wife: I thought you’d be thinking “wow what a nice Sunday morning”. Me: like just drink water you know?
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B 10 months ago
The history of water purification is fascinating! Not just a drop in dysentery but also cholera. The rise of coffee and tea, using boiled water, as a replacement for beer, wine and mead is equally interesting.