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Trials
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Eradicating a plague in a country like India or Madagascar or Africa would be like trying to keep flies out of yesterdays open meat market. Sure hope they are mostly young and healthy because it's almost a given this one is going to infect the entire populations eventually.
Median age in Kenya is 20. Yes, it is spreading quickly but the young population means the mortality is low.
Trials
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Good start, now if they only had fresh water and sanitation they might stand a chance.
Trials
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is there any doubt?If I take 2 people and rub them up against each other and one is covered in **** will the other guy get any on him?
The problems facing the USA include denial, racism, leadership and a money driven medical system.
How does a country get that low a median age? Ontario is double that.
Did something else bump off the elderly?
Oh, there's no doubt about that. The big question that may be answered in another month or so, is whether the number of deaths per million people level off around 600 - 700 the way they have for a number of other countries including Sweden who never had a lockdown, or whether that leveling-off is due to people following proper health guidance even in the absence of a lockdown (generally true of Sweden). Even in the USA, there are plenty of people quietly staying at home through all this ... those aren't the people we see out in public not wearing masks!
Trials
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Children making children is my guess.
... what's the average age of the first time mommy?
Low life expectancy in general. (67 years) People having lots of kids. People leaving the country when they get a chance.
That could be good for Trump, "See we were right and the Democrats cost us trillions."
Mad Mike
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Low life expectancy (Poverty diseases -- AIDS, TB, Cholera, Malaria -- are all a big factor).
For the vast majority it's a hard life. From my experience, not world vision bad for the vast majority but without a doubt access to clean water is not available to much of the population. A lot of people eak out a living doing illegal (and in most cases unsustainable) activities (turning trees into charcoal, buying one paper from a box taking them all and selling them to drivers, etc).
A decade ago a salary of $20 a month puts you near the top of blue collar kenyans. Many were surviving on a few dollars a month.
Sanitation in the slums was poop into a plastic bag and then spin it over your head and let it fly to get it away from your shack. Your neighbour a few alleys over does the same thing and it averages out with *&^*&^ spread everywhere. The water source was a few trickling brown streams (probably not much different volume than a garden hose) filled with garbage. That supplied ~100,000 people. 5 to 10 people living in each 100 sq ft shack. Fires burning in shack for cooking. Almost everything you look at isn't conducive to a long life.
This pic is reasonably representative of what I saw when I was there. For obvious reasons, busting out a big camera and taking pictures would have been a dumb idea. That water was used for cooking, drinking, clothes washing and bathing. I still don't understand how their clothes looked so damned clean.
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Trials
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More like cut down the Rosewoods to plant Eucalyptus that is used for cattle feed and charcoal, then turn razed land into rice fields to make food that in turn are destroyed to get the mud underneath to make brick and burn more charcoal to fire the brick before they raze the entire thing to make more Eucalyptus again.
Your wash water, that comes from the same stagnant pond as the Zebu standing next to you :|
... yet somehow the people for the most part seem amazingly clean
That's the larger commercial version of the cycle. Much of the destruction is just individuals trying to make a living. They go out into nature and cut down trees, make a pile of charcoal and carry the pile to the road or market using a sheet as a backpack. Nobody is replanting anything so the wasteland keeps expanding. I didn't see any rice fields, I don't know where they have enough water for that. Golf courses and coffee plantations have access to water as they are catering to non-kenyan consumers and therefore have a lot more income.
Trials
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I'm speaking more of Mad. There is a completely unique culture there, some 27 plus significant different cultures, several different native dialects and religious cultures on one island with virtually no history of civil war. They plant like crazy there, just no variety of species because of the soil.
Life expectancy is short, and infant mortality rate is pretty high, but your old age security is to have a lot of kids, so they look after you when your old. But you'll loose a few along the way, death and if they have a chance they move to a better part of Africa.
And its Africa, still the dark continent.
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