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r/askscience • u/bmcle071 • Mar 07 '20
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In the years and decades prior, wouldn't those horses have been around humans every day anyway, just for non-war purposes?
235 u/half3clipse Mar 07 '20 Sure. Except if something like that happens normally...it probably burns itself out pretty quick. Throw in trench warfare... 118 u/sniperdude24 Mar 08 '20 Trench warfare had soldiers in close quarters while most likely malnourished and without good medical care. 69 u/gw2master Mar 08 '20 Lack of rest and under a ton of stress also. That's why we see young doctors succumbing to things like COVID-19 even though most deaths are the elderly and infirm.
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Sure.
Except if something like that happens normally...it probably burns itself out pretty quick. Throw in trench warfare...
118 u/sniperdude24 Mar 08 '20 Trench warfare had soldiers in close quarters while most likely malnourished and without good medical care. 69 u/gw2master Mar 08 '20 Lack of rest and under a ton of stress also. That's why we see young doctors succumbing to things like COVID-19 even though most deaths are the elderly and infirm.
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Trench warfare had soldiers in close quarters while most likely malnourished and without good medical care.
69 u/gw2master Mar 08 '20 Lack of rest and under a ton of stress also. That's why we see young doctors succumbing to things like COVID-19 even though most deaths are the elderly and infirm.
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Lack of rest and under a ton of stress also. That's why we see young doctors succumbing to things like COVID-19 even though most deaths are the elderly and infirm.
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u/sprucenoose Mar 07 '20
In the years and decades prior, wouldn't those horses have been around humans every day anyway, just for non-war purposes?