” I can’t remember a single case of the same thing going back through all my younger days, youth and childhood.”
Part of that...we didn’t have the means of communication back then that we have now. Think about it. Something that occurs on the other side of the world is suddenly news and posted at a hundred (thousand?) internet websites within minutes...usually with pictures and running commentary.
Throw in the fact that EVERYBODY wants EVERYONE EVERYWHERE to know EVERYTHING they’re doing right this second ALL THE TIME, and you have a world of information overload.
When we were young, bad things that happened probably just stayed in the dark. Our parents maybe even made efforts to shield us from the bad side of life.
Perhaps. . .but we knew about epileptic fits because we saw them. Kind of like food allergies. Don’t know the rate of people with epilepsy and severe food allergies, but I suspect they are close.