ThrowThrowThrewaway8@vlemmy.nettoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do People in Third World Countries Have Stronger Immune Systems Than People in First World Countries?English
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1 year agoAlso “survivorship bias” sadly plays a part in this. The healthcare is low quality or nonexistent. Everyone seems to have an excellent immune system because most everyone that didn’t… died.
Man I really think this highlights how badly we need to stop using the word third-world. Thanks for pointing that out. It is antiquated and just used arbitrarily these days. I was trying to convey war-torn countries, countries with too much unrest to support a universal healthcare system, etc. Those descriptions are not descriptive of every third-world country.