"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
03/14/2020 at 16:37 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
03/14/2020 at 16:37 • Filed to: None | 10
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Rayburn Reed lost his 35-year-old wife, 4-year-old daughter, and 3-year-old son within 25 months.
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Just Jeepin'
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 16:52 |
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A church so remote they don’t lock the door.
facw
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 16:56 |
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Thing s used to be bad, then we improved them :
That’s infectious disease. But the past century had big gains across the board (though we still trail other developed countries in infant mortality and deaths in childbirth) .
Vaccines, better hygiene, and greater public health awareness have really pushed us ahead.
Tangentially related, and perhaps a bit triumphant for the current moment, but have one my favorite xkcds:
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 17:14 |
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I know a church much less remote where they don’t lock the door. But point taken.
ranwhenparked
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 17:26 |
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Life has always been hard, that’s what makes it real life and not a Hallmark movie. This, right now, is the best time to be alive in the whole history of human civilization, and things are still kinda rough, which doesn’t say much for the past.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> facw
03/14/2020 at 17:33 |
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As the chemistry major, physics is pretend science and biology is chemistry in a package that may or may not come with fangs or teeth.
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facw
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
03/14/2020 at 17:36 |
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> facw
03/14/2020 at 17:40 |
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Just Jeepin'
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
03/14/2020 at 17:54 |
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That was me in my bathroom last week, blacking out from dehydration.
RacinBob
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 17:55 |
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I’ll match you one. These are the graves of my Grandfather’s three sisters. Two died on the same day, and the third 10 days later of what might have been cholera in 1887.
Anastasia was 2, Rosa was 3, and Clara was 5. My grandfather was in the womb at the time of the deaths.
The family was building a new house at the time. She insisted that they not move until he was born healthy. My great grandmother had lost all her children in one house and did not want the memory of losing another child in the new one.
Tough times.
ClassicDatsunDebate
> facw
03/14/2020 at 17:59 |
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#1 is safe water.
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RacinBob
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 18:05 |
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Example two; My GG Grandfather came to America from Germany in 1854, They wintered in Indiana and that spring his pregnent newlywed bride died in childbirth, losing the child too.
He was traveling in a large group from the same vilage in Bavaria including his deceased wife’s extended family . He remairied shortly thereafter and my Great Grandfather was the second child of the second wife.
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ClassicDatsunDebate
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
03/14/2020 at 18:09 |
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Chemistry is simply the physics of materials.
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Just Jeepin'
> RacinBob
03/14/2020 at 18:12 |
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It’s remarkable how unlikely it is that any of us are here. Had your GG grandfather not lost his wife, you wouldn’t be here, and that’s just one of a few million other opportunities for things to have turned out differently.
Xanadu603
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 18:52 |
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They keep saying unprecedented but that's not true. If anything this is virus lite... so far.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 19:15 |
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Indeed. The Nebraska part of my family came over in the 1850s. In the first couple of generations it was pretty common for folks to have 6-7 kids, 4 of whom survived to adulthood. It can be easy to forget that people generally not getting sick and dying is really a very recent development in the human experience. It used to be a thing that happened all the time.
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RacinBob
> Just Jeepin'
03/14/2020 at 19:16 |
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Yes, the impact of what happened generations before have occured to me. A more recent example is my dad has always had flat feet and a heart murmer. He was called up for his Korean war physical and actually tried to bluff his way in by walking on his arches.
The doctor caught the ruse and asked him about his plans and he said h e was in engineering school and was seeing a girl . Doctor gave him credit for trying but declared him 4F.
A bout 2 years later my parents were married and 9 months after that RacinBob was born. That doctor did me a huge solid.....
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> ClassicDatsunDebate
03/14/2020 at 19:24 |
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Physics is the plan in your head. Chemistry is what happens when that plan meets a brick wall :P
DipodomysDeserti
> ranwhenparked
03/14/2020 at 22:16 |
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Depends who you are. Go visit an Indian Reservation sometime and talk to some of the oldest elders. Might change your perspective on things.
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DipodomysDeserti
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
03/14/2020 at 22:21 |
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And yet somehow I’m still drinking water from canals dug by people 1k years ago that Europeans though were subhuman. Fuckin’ people, amirite?
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> DipodomysDeserti
03/14/2020 at 22:51 |
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Yea fucking verily.
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ranwhenparked
> DipodomysDeserti
03/15/2020 at 01:40 |
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What, today vs. 50 years ago? How many people died of cancers then that are treatable now? What about heart attacks - survival rate today vs. survival rate just 30 years ago? How about rheumatoid arthritis - know what that was like before current biologics? What about car accidents? People walk away from what would have been brains and guts all over the place. How about the environment? We’ve got healthy fish living in rivers that used to run different colors depending on what kind of paper upstream mills were running that day. And, have you noticed the sidewalks next to major roadways don’t smell like unburned hydrocarbons anymore?
The oldest people on reservations were born in ca. 1920s, their earliest conscious memories are from maybe the 1930s. As shitty as their lives may still be, its definitely better to be poor now than to be poor 80-90 years ago.
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DipodomysDeserti
> ranwhenparked
03/15/2020 at 02:42 |
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Yeah, heart disease and cancer were a huge issue prior to the 1920s in Arizona...
The Navajo reservation in Arizona has some of t he highest levels of diabetes , heart disease and carcinoma on the country, pandejo.
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DipodomysDeserti
> DipodomysDeserti
03/15/2020 at 02:47 |
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Also, aren’t you Canadian? The only people who treat natives worse than Americans?
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ranwhenparked
> DipodomysDeserti
03/15/2020 at 08:57 |
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Sure it does, but people are able live longer with them now than used to be the case. Don’t know if you’re aware, but those diseases do predate the 20th Century. Of course, people did used to die younger from other causes before some of them could develop. Trust me, if you have to be a diabetic, you want to be a diabetic in 2020
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
11/13/2020 at 16:05 |
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I are engineer. Am can use chemikals and fizicks. It m ake things do the stuff.
Chariotoflove
> Xanadu603
11/13/2020 at 16:07 |
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The overuse of that word just reminds me that nobody really pays attention to history anymore, if they ever did.
MoCamino
> Just Jeepin'
11/13/2020 at 16:07 |
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That happened to my daughter last year. Got up one morning after not having enough water the day before. By the time she crossed the hall from her bedroom to the bathroom, she passed out, fell forward, and smacked her head on the toilet hard enough to break the seat . Fortunately she hit on the thickest part of the skull and did no major damage. The trip to the ER (just in case) was....stressful.
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Just Jeepin'
> MoCamino
11/13/2020 at 16:09 |
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No fun at all. In my case it was the flu, although it was mid- March so I wasn’t certain yet it wasn’t COVID. No fun.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Just Jeepin'
11/13/2020 at 16:21 |
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My grandfather was like 1 of 12 children. I think 3 or 4 of his siblings dies before 5 years old.
Kiltedpadre
> RacinBob
11/13/2020 at 16:28 |
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I have a similar story with my grandmother on my father’s side. Her dad lost his first wife in childbirth. Her mom lost her first husband in a farming accident.
The old church ladies in town convinced them that as a widow and widower they should marry for the sake of their kids. Well they got married and kept right on having kids. Between the kids they had when they got married and the children they had together they had 19 kids and miraculously for the time 18 lived to adulthood. My grandmother was the youngest of those kids.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> MoCamino
11/13/2020 at 22:48 |
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Shit! Glad she’s okay.
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Kiltedpadre
11/13/2020 at 22:49 |
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Wow!
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/13/2020 at 22:51 |
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Church doors used to never be locked...
Sadly, that changed.