"Rod Speed" wrote:

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"Rod Speed" wrote:
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"Rod Speed" wrote:
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Steve Walker wrote:
Max Demian wrote:
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Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement
By Katie Robertson, Dec. 4, 2018, NY Times
[...]
"A 30-to-40-year retirement is very different than a 10- or 20-year
retirement."
[...]

Not much "rethinking" evident in the article, just stating existing
conditions and possible problems with it.

What is the (presumably relatively youthful) author proposing? Work
'til
you drop? Greatly increased retirement age? Retirees retraining for
different jobs?

All very well for the pundits in rewarding jobs, but the vast
majority
of people get fed up with working and just don't want to do it any
more.

Increasing the retirement age makes sense, but if so, there should be
some sort of variable version to allow those with life shortening
conditions to retire earlier, so that they are not expected to work
until they drop.

We should stop making flu shots and MMR vaccines,
to control population more in line with nature's way.

No need anymore. Not one modern first world country
is even self replacing if you take out immigration.
And **** all would die of flu without flu shots anyway.

World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision

21 June 2017
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach
8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100,
according to a new United Nations report being launched today.

And scrapping flu shots and MMR vaccines would have almost
no effect on that given that hardly anyone in the two most
populous countries bothers with flu shots and MMR vaccines.
In spades with the bulk of the rest of the the world.

Corse it would,

How off that it doesn't in India and China.

flu complicates to pneumonia,

Only in the days before we invented antibiotics.

CDC says more die of flu worldwide than some experts have estimated
Dec 13, 2017, pbs.org

As many as 646,000 people may die from influenza each year worldwide,
according to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention — a larger number than what other health experts have
predicted in years past.

The CDC said between 291,000 and 646,000 people die from seasonal
flu-linked respiratory illnesses. Earlier projections from the World
Health Organization’s earlier projections of deaths from seasonal flu
— 250,000 to 500,000 per year — “are outdated,” according to the study
published Wednesday in The Lancet.
[...]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/...-who-estimated










which everyone knows is "the old man's friend",

Just because some silly senile old fool claimed that...

cause it saves him all that suffering of infirmity!

Doesn't happen anymore.

Measles, mumps, rubella are a rite of passage,
necessary to give youngsters a lesson in humility.

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.

With roughly 83 million people being added to the world's population
every year, the upward trend in population size is expected to continue,
even assuming that fertility levels will continue to decline.

And scrapping flu shots and MMR vaccines would have almost
no effect on that given that hardly anyone in the two most
populous countries bothers with flu shots and MMR vaccines.
In spades with the bulk of the rest of the the world.

If 99% of China is vaccinated,

It isnt for flu every year.

why do they have measles outbreaks?

Because 99% arent vaccinated with the best measles vaccines, stupid.

Stephan Neidenbach, May 5, 2017

This is a common question from vaccine deniers. The first thing to
understand is that it isn't a 99% rate, in fact 95% of babies in China
are currently being vaccinated against measles. Still, that should be
enough as the rate for herd immunity is somewhere between 90% & 95%.
Keep in mind though, the U.S. has this rate as well, and still has its
own measles outbreaks.
[...]

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2017 Measles-Rubella Vaccination Campaign in India
SR Shrivastava, PS Shrivastava, & J Ramasamy

Dear Editor,
The member states of the U.N. have agreed to eliminate measles &
rubella, & bring about an end to the associated deaths in newborns &
children by 2030, & thus aid in the accomplishment of the Sustainable
Development Goals.
[...]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5869958/








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