Posted on 04/30/2020 5:08:45 PM PDT by daniel1212
Air pollution kills around 200,000 Americans each year even when pollution levels remain below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's current guidelines, a report published in JAMA Network Open has found.
A team of scientists identified nine causes of death associated with exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), including three not previously recognized—chronic kidney disease, hypertension and dementia.
Cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, type 2 diabetes, lung cancer, and pneumonia also contributed to the count.
PM2.5 are pollution particles (or droplets) equal or smaller to 2.5 microns—a size so minuscule it is roughly 30 times smaller than a strand of human hair, according to the New York State Department of Health. Exposure to PM2.5 has been linked to several health conditions, including psychiatric disorders, mental health disorders (including depression), dementia, emphysema and lung disease. There is also evidence that it is making us less intelligent.
In this study, researchers found lower income communities and black Americans were the worst affected by high levels of PM2.5, while counties in "swaths" of the Midwest, Appalachia and states like Ohio, Louisiana and Missouri had some of the highest rates of deaths linked to air pollution.
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The good ol days. Or living "in synthesis with nature" with a fire in the tent opened at the top for a chimney.
It appears to have translated well.
In 2017, in the US, 2.8 million people died. Nothing was shut down that I recall, except balanced media coverage of Trump by the MSM.
Every year an estimated 290,000 to 650,000 people die in the world due to complications from seasonal influenza (flu) viruses. This figure corresponds to 795 to 1,781 deaths per day due to the seasonal flu.
That never was up in the first place.
Around 200,000 Americans Die Every Year From Air.
About 1,000,000 future Americans Die Every Year From CHOICE.
"Deadly" doesn't BEGIN to describe the harmful effects of Dihydrogen Monoxide!!
While it does have some benefits; read on to learn the DANGERS involved with using it!!
...but God did say, `You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you shall surely die. ‘
Genesis 2:17
I think time will tell that it is better in the long run to allow most to go outside and to work while practicing common-sense distancing. For the cost of these long-term extreme restrictions will end up being more costly to society and life than allowing greater freedom for most and a higher initial rate of infections followed by a faster decrease thru acquired immunity.
For as increased testing is showing, the vast majority who are infected with need no special care or have no symptoms, and far more are infected[2][3] than normal testing has shown, thus greatly reducing the fatality rate. And those who are in danger are overall the aged and or those with serious heath issues, as in the case in NYC[4].
And while Covid-19 is not the flu, yet the CDC estimates[5] that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, and between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths in America annually since 2010 (between 61,000[6] to 80,000[7] Americans died during the 2017-2018 season).
Yet the issue is why did we not see a comparative proportionate (to Covid-19) response to the Asian flu with its est. 500 million infections and 1–4 million deaths worldwide and 116,000 (according to the CDC[8] ) deaths in America, even when the population was about half what it is today? Besides the 100,000 deaths[9] in America from the Hong Kong flu that the article focus on?
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Indeed, and without the enforcement that penalizes violations we have read about, such as a drive-in parking lot service or having 16 people spread out in a church that seats 293[1].
I think time will tell that it is better in the long run to allow most to go outside and to work while practicing common-sense distancing. For the cost of these long-term extreme restrictions will end up being more costly to society and life than allowing greater freedom for most and a higher initial rate of infections followed by a faster decrease thru acquired immunity.
For as increased testing is showing, the vast majority who are infected with need no special care or have no symptoms, and far more are infected[2][3] than normal testing has shown, thus greatly reducing the fatality rate. And those who are in danger are overall the aged and or those with serious heath issues, as in the case in NYC[4].
And while Covid-19 is not the flu, yet the CDC estimates[5] that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, and between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths in America annually since 2010 (between 61,000[6] to 80,000[7] Americans died during the 2017-2018 season).
Yet the issue is why did we not see a comparative proportionate (to Covid-19) response to the Asian flu with its est. 500 million infections and 1–4 million deaths worldwide and 116,000 (according to the CDC[8] ) deaths in America, even when the population was about half what it is today? Besides the 100,000 deaths[9] in America from the Hong Kong flu that the article focus on?
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No it wasn’t up but the point is we didn’t shut down the economy to reduce these deaths.
It’s the major ingredient in demon liquor.
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