Oh I’m aware the Great Depression was a very tough time economically. We didn’t really come out of it until 1939 when we started rearming and supplying the Allies against Hitler.
Despite the tough times economically, people looked like they were in far better shape (even though yes, life expectancy was shorter due to a lack of modern medicine), dressed much nicer, and everything looked so much cleaner than it is now.
Hygiene was more of a boost to life expectancy than medicine.
But more important is the fact that we’re going to have to relearn most of the history we thought we knew.
Because they were lying to us the whole time. Including how the Great Depression was started, and how it ended.