Nanny State PING!
That’s not living.
I’m surprised that the author wasn’t Mike Bloomberg.
No, no, NO. It’s not Bloombird’s “health” measures.
First of all, a lot of old people come here or stay here, because it’s easy to have a life without a car, and there are LOTS of services and discounts. Easier to live here independently and alone than it is other places.
Second, we have the BEST doctors and hospitals in the world.
Do they really live longer or does it just seem so?
Conveniently timed info.
When your population aborts or doesn't bother to have children, the mean, median, and average age of death of your population will rise. It doesn't mean your people are living longer. It means your culture is dying.
God once put this curse on a people. New Yorkers? They're more sophisticated than that. They're imposing it on themselves.
The longer we live, the more we cost. So the nanny state costs taxpayers more than they would otherwise have to shell out. Cheaper to let us buy large soft drinks and eat salt!
>>>Researchers largely attribute that rise — the fastest in the nation — to a crackdown by the New York City health department on unhealthy behaviors.... The city ramped up its life expectancy by reining in homicide rates and HIV/AIDS-related mortality, both of which had weighed down the average at the beginning of the decade.<<<
Isn’t it cool the way that the writer can’t even maintain his premise for four paragraphs?
This article is just illogical.
the old New Yorkers I know, and knew, soem of who live to about 100, grew up without health insurance, Social Security and other govt. handouts. They had a retirement and widowhood fund.
They watched what they ate, didn’t over drink or smoke.
They supported their local doctor who took care of them, not thriving on their illnesses. One aunt told me they bought the doctor a car every few years, as needed.
There is absolutely no way they were told how to eat by anyone but a caring family member or friend, ever.
Never mind the other stupid statements in this “article”.
If so, the longevity in New York comes at a serious decrease in the quality of life.
If so, the longevity in New York comes at a serious decrease in the quality of life.
If so, the longevity in New York comes at a serious decrease in the quality of life.
People in NYC walk a lot and because they aren’t driving cars much, there aren’t many deaths by car accident. They have a large Hispanic population and for some reason Hispanic immigrants (self-selected, happy optimists?) live longer nationwide.
That Bloomberg’s bike lanes have helped is a laughable prospect and it seems awfully quick for his smoking ban to make a measurable difference.
Between Manhattan and the boroughs, there’s a higher incident of skinny, highly educated white people in the former and fatter, less educated black people in the latter.
This is a complete crock of shiite. Every decadent thing one can think of is performed in NYC in spades. The obvious reason for the longevity is the affluence of a large segment of the populace that can afford anything they want. And, more power to ‘em...Lies, statistics and damn lies....
The connotation of crackdown befits the police state mentality of Bloomberg. Didn't Bloomberg recently say something to the effect that it was government's purpose to take care of the health of its people. Use of the possessive pronoun to describe the relationship of government to people is commonplace with liberals. Perhaps one day the health police will walk people on leashes to make sure they get their exercise. The benefits of living in Bloomberg's Dog Kennel just mount with every idea he imposes.
The absence of scientific objectivity from this article is not surprising because it is a propaganda piece. If we would all be good little pets, we could all live a few years longer.
Well, I do want to live longer.
But not in NYC.
Hey, I was born in NY, and grew up upstate, have seen almost all of it.
Finger Lakes, Niagara Falls, the Adirondacks, Thousand Islands, NYC, Longggg Giland,,,
New York is shaped like a foot, and NYC is the heel!
people don’t live longer in NYC...
they’re just kept on the voting rolls a few years after they die
LLS