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This is something we really don't think about enough: Victorian novels are full of children dying.
FULL of them. Full of diseases that we can now prevent with sanitation and pasteurization and vaccines!
And we wanna go back WHY? https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-killed-victorian-children-at-alarming-rates-their-novels-highlight-the-fragility-of-public-health-today-242273
@beebrookshire I have an English/History degree that focussed on Victorian Britain and the number of times I have said this... and people look at me like I have 2 heads because the idea that this was some glorious golden age is so strong that it has overshadowed the fact that the child mortality rate was atrocious.
@commonst @beebrookshire And let's not even start on how sheer bad luck can make you and your family into literal slaves in privately owned workhouses, or with kids as young as six pulling ore carts in mines...
@commonst @beebrookshire I have this recollection that thirty per cent of children in the UK died before they reached 5 years of age. And if a child entered the work house before the age of five, chances were almost at 100 per cent they didn't live to the age of six.
About your degree…
Even if you had no interest whatsoever in any STEM subject, you were likely obliged to take a few science or math classes in both high school and as an undergrad.
But that’s you, and most people.
RFK Jr, in contrast, was booted from one prep school after another for his drug addiction, and only got through Harvard as a legacy.
So you, with your English/History degree, have a vastly more comprehensive grasp of science than Trump’s pick for HHS.
@MollyNYC @beebrookshire we need a way to get people in charge who know what they are actually doing. Canada is heading the same way atm and it is so infuriating to watch people ignore actual data and just go with the guy with the folksy charm who is dismantling our healthcare.