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> There’s plenty of bacteria hanging out in the dirt, water, the animals you eat, and on your own skin. Add in the parasites, and zoonotic viruses and it’s not very hard at all to catch a disease even as a solitary hermit in the wild.

An hunter-gathers were probably a lot more robust to that than modern people.

Think about it: if what you say were that big of an issue, hunter-gathers would have been sickly and died out before getting to us.

parent palmotea 11 months ago

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