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Old July 15th 19, 05:07 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tom Kunich[_5_]
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On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 5:35:57 PM UTC-7, Chalo wrote:
Tom Kunich wrote:
With all of this congestion, noise, pollution, hostility and ill health perhaps you
can explain why since 1900 the life expectancy of a white man in NYC has gone from 47
years to 72 years while a black man has gone from 33 years to about he same 72?


Proximity to immediate help; proximity to medical care. You can get many chances to die in a place like that.

You don't have to spend a lot of time examining New Yorkers to see that huffing exhaust is bad for you. If you're from a less car-infested place, you can't fail to notice.


Obviously New York City in 1900 didn't have just as good proximity to care as they do now. (Eyes rolling).

In case you missed it, New York City is the center of the news media universe. They don't appear very sickly in physical health.
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Old August 29th 19, 09:47 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tim McNamara
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:45:02 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
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Jay Beattie wrote:
News of the day, I was riding along out in the country and got chased
by a chicken. It was terrifying.


Chicken ferocity is amazing. I saw my rooster Jackie Chan
bluff-charge hawks, attack me and leave me with scars I still wear,
and face down all kinds of other critters you'd think were completely
out of a chicken's league. They have no idea they're just chickens.


Chickens are dinosaurs, literally. They know this and they think they
are short T. rexes.
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Old August 29th 19, 09:52 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tim McNamara
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:35:55 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote:
Tom Kunich wrote:
With all of this congestion, noise, pollution, hostility and ill
health perhaps you can explain why since 1900 the life expectancy of
a white man in NYC has gone from 47 years to 72 years while a black
man has gone from 33 years to about he same 72?


Proximity to immediate help; proximity to medical care. You can get
many chances to die in a place like that.


Even simpler: public clean drinking water and sanitation systems. Yes
it's a form of collectivist socialism but it actually works. Water
service and sewers made a huge difference.

You don't have to spend a lot of time examining New Yorkers to see
that huffing exhaust is bad for you. If you're from a less
car-infested place, you can't fail to notice.


There's a ton of research on the deleterious effects of city life on
physical and mental health. But it is where the majority of humans live
these days; other factors provide some compensation.
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Old August 29th 19, 11:15 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tom Kunich[_5_]
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Default Terror in New York

On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 5:35:57 PM UTC-7, Chalo wrote:
Tom Kunich wrote:
With all of this congestion, noise, pollution, hostility and ill health perhaps you
can explain why since 1900 the life expectancy of a white man in NYC has gone from 47
years to 72 years while a black man has gone from 33 years to about he same 72?


Proximity to immediate help; proximity to medical care. You can get many chances to die in a place like that.

You don't have to spend a lot of time examining New Yorkers to see that huffing exhaust is bad for you. If you're from a less car-infested place, you can't fail to notice.


The smog was ten times worse in LA. You HAD to travel by car there. From Riverside you could see that black cloud hovering above the horizon.

But although that does cause certain ailments in people that are sensitive to that, the average age of death in LA was no different than it was in Seattle which at the time was one of the hallmarks of a pristine environment.
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Old August 29th 19, 11:52 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
John B. Slocomb
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:47:10 -0500, Tim McNamara
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:45:02 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote:
Jay Beattie wrote:
News of the day, I was riding along out in the country and got chased
by a chicken. It was terrifying.


Chicken ferocity is amazing. I saw my rooster Jackie Chan
bluff-charge hawks, attack me and leave me with scars I still wear,
and face down all kinds of other critters you'd think were completely
out of a chicken's league. They have no idea they're just chickens.


Chickens are dinosaurs, literally. They know this and they think they
are short T. rexes.


Naw. Roosters are just herd critters and fighting chickens are just
trying to keep others away from THEIR flock :-)
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Cheers,

John B.
 




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