Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2017
BenRG:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 09 Jun 2017, 20:21 ---There are two major modern innovations which ameliorate the human condition more than almost any others: running water to wash your hands in, and vaccines to make your kids live past their fifth birthday. (Running water gets them past their first.) You can't have the second without the first, and Alice's town doesn't have it.
What does that mean? 60% of all children die before their first birthdays.
That's less than ideal.
--- End quote ---
Given the size and sophistication of the hospital, I think that you're making several unjustified assumptions there.
Tova:
Imagine that.
Undrneath:
Wasn't a major plot point Ardent "upgrading" the water pump? That means running water to some degree. And we haven't seen any evidence for or against them having vaccines.
Thrudd:
Well the indirect evidence on the child health front is family size. Societies with a high mortality rate tended to have more children resulting in larger families. From what we have seen we can infer that with only one or two siblings that overall mortality is quite low. We also do not know how robust the base humans are with respect to disease and injury in comparison to our own.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 09 Jun 2017, 23:36 ---
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 09 Jun 2017, 20:21 ---There are two major modern innovations which ameliorate the human condition more than almost any others: running water to wash your hands in, and vaccines to make your kids live past their fifth birthday. (Running water gets them past their first.) You can't have the second without the first, and Alice's town doesn't have it.
What does that mean? 60% of all children die before their first birthdays.
That's less than ideal.
--- End quote ---
Given the size and sophistication of the hospital, I think that you're making several unjustified assumptions there.
--- End quote ---
Indeed. Even though Ardent and Gavia are more augmented than baseline humans the people of Earth are the products of genetic engineering too. They might not be on the level of their ancestors 5000 years ago, but quite possibly they are still immune to most serious diseases and illnesses and without modern technology have a lifespan comparable to our own.
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