Everything is Political - Pioneer Cemetery Version

Recently, after posting some pioneer cemetery photos on another "site" I ended up in a discussion with a friend about old cemeteries. They said old cemeteries prompted them to reflect upon what it was like to live there back then. I replied; "these days old cemeteries (and especially the gravestones of infants and youth) are a reminder to me of how far we've come... "

...and how far people are willing to go backwards to make things "great again".

I used to think of what it was like to live back in the 1800's, but now all I can think of is the various childhood diseases, simple infections, etc. that killed large numbers of young people. There are plenty of 70+ and 80+ year olds in those cemeteries. The average life expectancy has jumped in the last ~125 years due in most part, not to people living older but instead to babies and children not dying because of two things.
1. Antibiotics.
2. Vaccines.
In general, if you made it through childhood diseases such as chickenpox, polio, mumps, measles, the random staph infection, etc. as a kid, you were on your way to a long life.

Just a VERY SMALL sample of the infants and children in a couple of the pioneer cemeteries I visited a couple weeks ago

One Year Old, Died 1904

Born and Died, October 31, 1924

Unknown Little One

Son of... Age 3 Months