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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Todays rant
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:56:41 +0700
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On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:05:42 -0500, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 23:45:12 -0500, Frank Krygowski
><frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>On 12/3/2024 8:12 PM, John B. wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:04:27 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 12/3/2024 6:22 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>> You might ant to look at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
>>>>> it used numbers per population and is no longer updated. Details on
>>>>> site.
>>>>> Example
>>>>> World cases - 90,413 per 1 million
>>>>> U.S.A. cases    - 333,985
>>>>> World deaths - 889.4 per 1 million population
>>>>> U.S.A. deaths - 3642
>>>>
>>>> Data means nothing to those whose world view is dominated by their
>>>> political views.
>>>>
>>>> "That site could be biased!!! It's probably run by Socialists!!!"
>>>>
>>>> "Statistics can show anything they want them to show!!!"
>>>>
>>>> "How do we know those were COVID deaths? Those Americans could have died
>>>> of anything!!!  ... Oh, but the U.S. medical system is _still_ the best
>>>> in the world!!!"
>>> 
>>> And life expectance is number 48 (both sexes) in a list of the world's
>>> countries
>>>   https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
>>
>>Our tricycle rider is going to get mad at you for giving links he 
>>doesn't like.
>
>
>No, this tricycle rider understands that there are many reasons other
>than health care for life expectancy to be lower in the USA, drugs,
>crime, poor eating, and other bad habits (getting fat) being some of
>them.
>
>USAians eat processed food with chemicals that color, preserve, and
>enhance taste are in a lot of the food on grocery shelves in the USA,
>but not in many other countries.  Hopefully, RFK jr is going to work
>on that.


Err... you mean like putting salt on pork to preserve it?
-- 
Cheers,

John B.