'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm usually good at explaining "What were they thinking when they made this incorrect logical assertion?" but I'm drawing a blank on this one....
That's a toughie. I think you could make a case that there are too many variables in life expectancy to use it as a metric of quality of health care. In this case, I think the best explanation is that Bill O'Reilly is an idiot.
oh msbelle, i'm so sorry about the bedbugs. Your Dealing with it efforts are truly admirable.
I'm drawing a blank on this one....
All I can figure is that he doesn't know what "life expectancy" means and is translating it into "fewer deaths/year" in his head or something.
I hope your cat is ok, lisah.
I know a number of people who think we live a lot longer today than we did a few hundred years ago. But that number really changes if you compare people that made it past 30 then and now.
Poor kitty.
Related to Bill O'Rielly, I hate it when people say that doing something "lowers the risk of death". I am pretty sure my risk of death is 100%
Yeah, a lot of how modern life expectancy is higher than it was a couple hundred years ago is attributable to lower infant mortality and childhood disease. I'm not sure how young men dying in wars/accidents/general violence compares.
thanks lisa - I just found a product I think will make keeping or getting my sofa clean a lot easier, so that is something. And I found a store in NY that sell a bunch of this stuff, so I need to get up there one day this week.
Tonight I am bagging yarn and washing summer skirts/dresses. jealous, I know.
I would say potential lifespan has not changed a whole lot, but a lot of obstacles to reaching that potential lifespan have been removed. Vaccinations, antibiotics, more reliable food supply, sanitation, etc...
A speaker at this year's global health council conference said that humanity at large could have over 60 years life expectancy given clean water, sanitation, and reliable, safe light at night (to enable things like cleaning up after sick kids at 3 am without burning the house down).
Someone suggested I go to the date wrecks site for a laugh...and while I'm not a particularly nice person, I found the whole thing to be merciless bullying.
Am I losing me edge? Softening up?
It's just, "here, look at this dork and how icky he is."
Or a mook or whatever. It's just, posting their pictures and everything seems icky.