There’s a lot of alcoholism amongst natives, possibly due to their not being exposed to alcohol until the arrival of Europeans. It’s really bad for your health.
I know very little about Native American contemporary culture.
I saw footage a few years ago about some protest over a planned pipeline. All the Natives had arrived in vehicles of a size and spec you would rarely see in Europe.
I know about the natives here in BC as I lived in a couple of small towns as a child. It was commonplace to see drunk natives passed out on the street.
I’m not making a judgement: I believe it is biological. Susceptibility to alcohol is related to when your ancestors were exposed to it. It’s lowest in the Mediterranean area. It’s high in Russia, Ireland and Scotland. And it’s disastrously high for natives.
US black life expectancy at 72 is now below the following African-diaspora countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Curacao, Barbados, Panama, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Aruba, Cabo Verde, Bahamas, Mauritius, and Dominica.
It is still above all of sub-Saharan Africa itself, the highest of which seems to be São Tomé and Príncipe at 69.
Diabetes is not always a lifestyle choice. My brother-in-law, a lifelong careful eater, exerciser and non-smoker has it. My sister, less careful eater and non-exerciser, doesn’t. Genetic factors also come into play.
It's mostly diabetes type II, due to thrifty genes - nomadic hunter gatherers are not accustomed to sedentary life-style plus abundant carbohydrate-rich diet.
Type I affects just a small proportion of the population and was lethal before insulin became available in the 1920s/1930s. There is a fatal combination of nature and nurture there. On the one hand, a predisposition for certain human leukocyte antigens (hla), On the other hand, infection with coxsackie virus B or some other enteroviruses.
From reading your writings you seem to be a bigger fan of baseball than football, but I was hoping you could tell us about your football viewing habits. From the hours you seem to keep, it would seem that the NFL schedule does not align well. For those who don't know, the NFL schedules Sunday games at 10, 1:25, and 5:20 (Pacific), with the 1:25 game generally being considered to be the best game of the week. The Los Angeles teams never play at 10 at home, but they will play road games in that slot like the Chargers did this week in Pittsburgh.
So, I supposed my ultimate question for Steve is: How much NFL football do you watch? How about college? As an aside, the aforementioned Chargers will be hosting the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs this coming Sunday at 1:25 on Channel 2.
I was looking up Native American COVID responses after reading this and found the following quote from a paper:
"Vaccination efforts that were culturally sensitive, combined with a steady supply of vaccine doses, were instrumental to this achievement. Most notable among these strategies was the use of vaccinated community elders as role models who emphasized the importance of preserving AI/AN culture and protecting Native American communities"
So there is a reason for the prevalent anti-vax movements among generally white and/or conservative communities! There's too little emphasis on preserving thise cultures and protecting those communities, and government messaging, and elite messaging, is disrespectful to them. Interesting.
I am seeing conflicting information, but according to HHS it is 13%. The health tab at this link breaks out women with a life expectancy of 71.3 years and men at 64.6. They were absolutely terrified of Covid, but I don't know that they got it worse than anyone else, it could have just been a function of the fact that many of them spend absurd amounts of time watching TV and they were bombarded with propaganda.
You might say the recent numbers are within normal limits and I might agree, but here's the weird part. After 2 or 3 years of our most vulnerable citizens dying early, shouldn't we see below normal deaths for a few years as the supply of the "about to die" builds back up?
Is their methodology sophisticated enough that these numbers are already corrected for this?
Amerindian life expectancy is now on a par with Tanzanian and Rwanda.
These countries have a purchasing power adjusted GDP of approximately one twentieth and one thirtieth of the United States.
There’s a lot of alcoholism amongst natives, possibly due to their not being exposed to alcohol until the arrival of Europeans. It’s really bad for your health.
I know very little about Native American contemporary culture.
I saw footage a few years ago about some protest over a planned pipeline. All the Natives had arrived in vehicles of a size and spec you would rarely see in Europe.
That's very American. Could not be more proud of our Natives.
I know about the natives here in BC as I lived in a couple of small towns as a child. It was commonplace to see drunk natives passed out on the street.
I’m not making a judgement: I believe it is biological. Susceptibility to alcohol is related to when your ancestors were exposed to it. It’s lowest in the Mediterranean area. It’s high in Russia, Ireland and Scotland. And it’s disastrously high for natives.
But why would it drop recently? Have they been drinking even more for the last few decades?
US black life expectancy at 72 is now below the following African-diaspora countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Curacao, Barbados, Panama, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Aruba, Cabo Verde, Bahamas, Mauritius, and Dominica.
It is still above all of sub-Saharan Africa itself, the highest of which seems to be São Tomé and Príncipe at 69.
Did COVID hit younger Indians harder than other groups, or was it deaths of exuberant despair?
Perhaps the complete removal of Indian iconography from American culture scalped their collective psyche.
The Indians dropped Chief Wahoo after the 2018 season. Coincidence? They became the Guardians after the 2021 season.
Alcohol, Diabetes and Suicides?
All lifestyle choices. Not a cause for public health alarm.
Diabetes is not always a lifestyle choice. My brother-in-law, a lifelong careful eater, exerciser and non-smoker has it. My sister, less careful eater and non-exerciser, doesn’t. Genetic factors also come into play.
Does your brother love getting vaccinated?
Vaccines don’t cause diabetes.
That sounds more like a religious belief you’re stating than anything to do with science.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9282628/
You'd be amazed how many "smart" people don't know about Type I Diabetes.
It's mostly diabetes type II, due to thrifty genes - nomadic hunter gatherers are not accustomed to sedentary life-style plus abundant carbohydrate-rich diet.
Type I affects just a small proportion of the population and was lethal before insulin became available in the 1920s/1930s. There is a fatal combination of nature and nurture there. On the one hand, a predisposition for certain human leukocyte antigens (hla), On the other hand, infection with coxsackie virus B or some other enteroviruses.
I don’t believe you. Type 2 diabetes pretty exclusively happens to fatties
He never said it was type 2.
O/T question for Steve...
From reading your writings you seem to be a bigger fan of baseball than football, but I was hoping you could tell us about your football viewing habits. From the hours you seem to keep, it would seem that the NFL schedule does not align well. For those who don't know, the NFL schedules Sunday games at 10, 1:25, and 5:20 (Pacific), with the 1:25 game generally being considered to be the best game of the week. The Los Angeles teams never play at 10 at home, but they will play road games in that slot like the Chargers did this week in Pittsburgh.
So, I supposed my ultimate question for Steve is: How much NFL football do you watch? How about college? As an aside, the aforementioned Chargers will be hosting the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs this coming Sunday at 1:25 on Channel 2.
I’ll field this one Steve. He watches about a half hour a week of football.
Car crashes?! They're allowed to DRIVE now?
I was looking up Native American COVID responses after reading this and found the following quote from a paper:
"Vaccination efforts that were culturally sensitive, combined with a steady supply of vaccine doses, were instrumental to this achievement. Most notable among these strategies was the use of vaccinated community elders as role models who emphasized the importance of preserving AI/AN culture and protecting Native American communities"
So there is a reason for the prevalent anti-vax movements among generally white and/or conservative communities! There's too little emphasis on preserving thise cultures and protecting those communities, and government messaging, and elite messaging, is disrespectful to them. Interesting.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8936100/
I'd say at this point the tribes and their reservations are failed institutions. Do they have a problem with mutational load at this point?
What percentage live on reservations?
I am seeing conflicting information, but according to HHS it is 13%. The health tab at this link breaks out women with a life expectancy of 71.3 years and men at 64.6. They were absolutely terrified of Covid, but I don't know that they got it worse than anyone else, it could have just been a function of the fact that many of them spend absurd amounts of time watching TV and they were bombarded with propaganda.
https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/american-indianalaska-native-health
Fentanyl moment
Here's a weird little fact we don't seem very concerned about:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~USA
excess deaths continued well after the pandemic.
You might say the recent numbers are within normal limits and I might agree, but here's the weird part. After 2 or 3 years of our most vulnerable citizens dying early, shouldn't we see below normal deaths for a few years as the supply of the "about to die" builds back up?
Is their methodology sophisticated enough that these numbers are already corrected for this?
Almost as if those races who had the highest rates of COVID vaccinations saw the lowest drop in life expectancy...
Off-topic: Big news. Ta-Nehisi Coates is back. Let joy be unconfined. https://archive.ph/1860V