Originally Posted by
msjh
- We're healthier than we were in 1918. Yes, the news highlights the obese but most people today are immensely healthier than they were a hundred years ago.
Obesity doesn't necessarily compromise the immune system in the same way that poverty and food shortages do. It's a different category of unhealthy.
Anyone remember Terry Nation's Survivors from the 70s? Mystery epidemic wiping out most of the population. I think it was implied to be a 'flu virus.