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You Have A Higher Risk Of Dying From Coronavirus If You Are Poor
19FortyFive ^ | 12/18/2020 | Ethen Kim Lieser

Posted on 12/18/2020 10:39:34 AM PST by Onthebrink

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To: Onthebrink

you have more of a risk of dying from obesity if you’re poor...

scratch your head on that one for awhile


41 posted on 12/18/2020 11:12:28 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: kosciusko51

Ironically, America’s poor are so “poor” that includes obesity induced heart disease too.

Years ago I phrased the 4 Questions, questions that are typical to be asked by people who range from the very destitute to the wealth.

The poor and destitute ask: “How shall we eat?”

The food insecure, the poor ask: “When shall we eat?”

The prosperous ask: “What shall we eat?”

The rich ask: “Where shall we eat?”


42 posted on 12/18/2020 11:12:45 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Track9

The headline wasn’t written by the author!


43 posted on 12/18/2020 11:13:14 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: heartwood

When I say the poor tend to be obese, I’m not “blaming”. I’m just noticing reality. I have my own theories on it, but I agree that it is a lot of stuff.

I get dinged for making this generalization too, even though, generally speaking, it speaks to something very real:

Are the poor of low character because they are poor, or are they poor because they are of low character?


44 posted on 12/18/2020 11:14:18 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Onthebrink

Yes, but if you are rich you are 10,000 more times likely than a poor person to die fro eating tainted caviar, so it all evens out in the end.


45 posted on 12/18/2020 11:15:05 AM PST by Atticus
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To: Mariner

diabetes


Yep. I hear that is the most at-risk comorbidity group. And type two is what comes to mind. Actions have consequences.


46 posted on 12/18/2020 11:15:17 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Onthebrink

You have a higher age-adjusted risk of dying of anything if you are poor.


47 posted on 12/18/2020 11:16:18 AM PST by devere
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To: Track9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZvdkrsOq0

Doublemint, but not with twins...


48 posted on 12/18/2020 11:17:11 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Onthebrink

Going way out on a limb here but aren’t your chances of expiring from a whole plethora of reasons greater when you’re poor?


49 posted on 12/18/2020 11:23:30 AM PST by ImpBill (The GOP is worthless. But that is nothing new!)
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To: Onthebrink

Poor or stupid which also makes you poor?


50 posted on 12/18/2020 11:25:54 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Onthebrink

So there is a correlation between china virus and wealth.

China virus causes wealth, who knew?


51 posted on 12/18/2020 11:25:56 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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52 posted on 12/18/2020 11:28:05 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: volunbeer

About the homeless and their low rate of COVID. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that many are outdoors a lot, and they get that vitamin D from the sun?????

Sounds silly, I know.


53 posted on 12/18/2020 11:32:01 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Onthebrink
I love to watch people. It has gotten me into trouble when the person I am watching is a pretty women😂. But, I try to analyze people and I noticed something interesting. Poor people eat poorly. That is because garbage is cheap. When I was young and a single father I was working poor, we ate a lot of hotdogs, ramen and Mac n cheese. Canned veggies and sometimes canned meat to have a meat on the plate. All that is really unhealthy food. When my daughter was out of State working, it became obvious she was not eating good. She was barely able to afford rent in Seattle so I sent her Omaha steak meals for four. That translated into a week or more of decent meals for her.

Poor people are poor for various reason, but of course woke people believe it is racism, ignoring the millions of working poor whites. Poor people only garner sympathy if they have no control over their circumstances. Doesn't mean I won't help, I am just not sympathetic to their plight. You smoke and lack funds for decent food, that is your problem. When I was poor, I worked my way out of it. White privileged my ass, my Black and Puerto Rican friends from the military helped me get back on my feet.

It stands to reason, poor eat poorly so they are more susceptible to illness and comorbidity like obesity and diabetes. Give them more money they will buy more garbage. Poor White or poor Black it makes no difference. It becomes a life style. Watch the people with an EBT card in the store, chips, soda, cookies, canned foods, hotdogs and other assorted garbage. Any wonder they have a higher rate of comorbidity.

54 posted on 12/18/2020 11:32:29 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: Onthebrink

Truth is found in layers. That the so-called coronavirus is associated with low income patients or places is superficial. I did my own study of census tracts and districts in Los Angeles County and sure enough the areas with low income Hispanics had higher virus death rates. But other low income Hispanic areas had low virus death rates. In further examination those areas with a high proportion of foreign born and are low income Hispanic, have the highest rates of virus deaths. What might make foreign born more susceptible to virus? Many foreign born are TB carriers and TB has the same symptoms as coronavirus and makes a person more vulnerable to the virus.
Read my study: Foreign Born and Nursing Home Patients Are Brunt of COVID-19 Deaths in LA County, California Globe, May 30, 2020.


55 posted on 12/18/2020 11:32:38 AM PST by WLusvardi (Drudge Fudges)
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To: MtnClimber

Springtime for AntiFa and BLM
Winter for honest folks with a job
They’re moving to a faster pace
To turn everywhere into Detroit in great haste
Springtime for AntiFa and BLM
Marxist are happy and gay
And by that we mean they are really gay
Not just sappy and happy and upbeat


56 posted on 12/18/2020 11:36:16 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Magnum44

It should be noted that as knights they were at least middle class.


57 posted on 12/18/2020 11:37:39 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Onthebrink
A new study makes a startling claim: You have a higher risk of dying from coronavirus if you are poor.

And I always thought you have a higher risk of dying from coronavirus if you contracted the disease.

So I am not poor so my chances for survival have gone up. -Tom /S

58 posted on 12/18/2020 11:43:52 AM PST by Capt. Tom (It's COVID 2020 - The Events, not us, are in charge -Tom)
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To: NobleFree

What’s “startling” about that? You are more likely to die of many different things if you’re poor?


59 posted on 12/18/2020 11:44:14 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Our 2nd Civil War started, Friday, December 11th, 2020! As we can not have real elections anymore)
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To: Rurudyne

You’re a wealth of information...


60 posted on 12/18/2020 11:54:53 AM PST by Track9 (English language instruction in china is sponsored by the CCP to facilitate espionage. )
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