On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 13:33:08 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:18:02 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 02/05/2018 11:09, Andrew wrote:
On 02/05/2018 09:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 02/05/18 09:28, Nightjar wrote:
Asthma is certainly something that I don't recall anybody I knew as a
child having, which I doubt would be the case today.

At least 4 people in my class at primary school had it and 3-4 in my
secondary school, as did I.

We didnt advertise the fact tho.



They tend to grow out of it. The point is, how many of the
14,500 centenarians had serious illnesses or accidents during
their lives before the nanny state NHS ?. These are the ones
who inherited a good set of genes and a fair dose of lady luck.

Isn't that the whole point?

Distorted stats yes.

They developed immunity as a result of exposure to stuff that modern
children aren't exposed to.

No they didn't or there's little proof. Few children had serious illnesses or accidents from the mines in later life because they died early and few records were kept.

Their immune system learnt to attack the bad
stuff rather than the person so they haven't developed as many illnesses
caused by faulty immune systems.

How many kids then were pushed along in buggies along congested roads with cars and lorries spewing out all sorts of crap, 100 years ago there weren't many cars on the road or buses or lorries. So little CO far less CO2 and virtually no nitrous oxide or platinium from catolitic converters.


On the other hand, there were lots of coal fires and smogs in towns and cities.
Sulphur dioxide.

Hard to prove what causes what.

Catalytic converters you mean.
The problem is they also produce ammonia and hydrogen sulphide.