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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Todays rant
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:45:52 +0700
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On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:50:21 -0500, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:56:41 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>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 it used numbers per population and is no longer updated.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?
>
>No, but they already limit the amount of ratshit in your cheerioes, so
>why not limit the amount of chemicals?

I don't know about the breakfast cereal. I haven't eaten that since I
was in my teens
-- 
Cheers,

John B.