Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.
(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)
It seems mainly there’s two extremes with the old broken folks they’re talking about:
Poor health because it’s a sedentary job, or a broken body because they were in construction or something.