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>Is it "the fact of the matter"? Today's few surviving hunter-gatherers are
>getting a bum rap from governments -- they are "bad" nomads; "good" ones
>being the nomadic highly skilled professionals -- but that does not mean
>that life was/is idyllic.
Who said it was/is idyllic? I'm not a back-to-Naturist.
>And who says they don't get contagious diseases?
They do. But the big incubators of contagious diseases are cities. If you're an isolated hunter-gathering group that rarely comes across other people, who are you going to catch it from? There's a reason why European diseases flooded the New World and not vice versa. European and before them Near Eastern cities were like laboratories for whipping up biological WMD.
Moreover, they die
>from simple ailments that no one should have to die of today. Just two
>weeks ago, I received news of someone who died of what sounds like
>septicaemia from a bad tooth/gum infection. Shucks, they even get cancers.
>And the women get gynecological disorders -- a female doctor is always a
>popular visitor because the women then get to talk to her about their
>problems. Three years ago, a 40+ year old woman I knew died of -- the
>description given was bleeding from the vagina.
>
>kj khoo
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