Re: Todays rant

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:
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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it used numbers per population and is no longer updated.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

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Data means nothing to those whose world view is dominated by their
political views.
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"That site could be biased!!! It's probably run by Socialists!!!"
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"Statistics can show anything they want them to show!!!"
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"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/

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Our tricycle rider is going to get mad at you for giving links he
doesn't like.

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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.
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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?
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Cheers,

John B.