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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (11763)	8/20/2021 11:09:30 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26824

Well... Would our world benefit from the reality that if you don't take care of yourself, you may have a lower mortality rate. duh It would be a higher mortality rate but I'm sure you meant that. The truth is this is already true. A lot of it is blamed on racism but it is pure BS. It is poverty. Poverty mostly comes in the US from having kids too early, without a two parent home and with one or more of the parents having a substance abuse problem including alcohol. If you don't have money then you have to buy or rent in places that are cheap. That means near noisy roads or factories such as oil refineries, airports or cement quarries to name a few. I grew up on cheap land a few houses from a steep, multilane connection between the interstate and HW1. They finished the connector when I started college and when I came home in the summers it was hard to sleep at night with the trucks shifting gears to make the steep climb. That neighborhood now is mostly immigrant with multiple families sharing small, homes with the lawns on the front yards often paved over so they have parking since street parking is often full. If you don't sleep well, then you probably don't learn as well in school... the city is almost always foggy so the air is good as the fog cleans it and when the fog backs off, it is windy... so noise is the worst environmental issue. OH... I forgot to mention the homes are also right under the flight path of planes taking off from SFO! Anyway, "they" are using COVID to discuss racial inequality here and they of course don't talk about the poor diet of those who mostly suffer the worst from COVID. I'm not sure what we can do other than keep demanding they publish data. The data I've seen here makes it clear the vaccines work if success is not dying or getting sick enough to need the hospital. The idea kids could go back to school is they don't usually get sick from it or sick enough to need hospitalization but you need to protect the teachers who here are often morbidly obese... The teacher's union here is so powerful by its sure size that getting them "back to work" has not been easy. Now they want a third booster shot while the poorer nations want us to send them those vaccines! My first reaction to the African nations was sure, as soon as you pay reparations to the blacks you sold to European slave traders to work in the US plantations. Why should we keep suffering and paying for their constant wars, often conscripting children to carry guns or work in mines, rather than developing their own vaccines and economies so they can support themselves? Sort of like the Middle East... let the African nations deal with their problems and stop enabling them by constantly bailing them out. Off the soapbox. Have a good weekend!