I Lucky If the Crap Doesn't Fail

Farmers were actually more in danger of famine than hunter gatherers, because they relied on a much more narrow economic base. If you're a herder and your goat herd has been decimated by some plague, that's the end of you family. As a hunter gatherer, you wander around the land with 50 or so. You have many more diseases. In the days of ovit, it was good to remember that most infectious diseases started with the agricultural revolution. They came from domesticated animals, and they spread in large, permanent settlements.