tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post8368647943776685003..comments2024-03-28T16:46:50.706+00:00Comments on The Moose: Life expectancy. I expect fake charity trickery.Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-86705323083887210902011-11-29T09:02:53.446+00:002011-11-29T09:02:53.446+00:00Derek - The lobby groups also create pretend probl...Derek - The lobby groups also create pretend problems by massaging the figures. Without problems they have no reason to exist.<br /><br />Single Acts - I've often used the line, "There is no such thing as public health, only your health and my health". I didn't make that one up, I pinched it from the Daily Mash, but it's still true.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-23197494761279176412011-11-29T05:44:49.641+00:002011-11-29T05:44:49.641+00:00The problem is to conflate obesity, drinking etc w...The problem is to conflate obesity, drinking etc with public health when it is nothing of the sort.<br /><br />If there are open sewers then there is little the private individual can do about it* and thus public sewers solve the problem by making cholera less likely.<br /><br />But what I eat or drink is absolutely 100% my choice and I am entirely able to resist cajoling from the wine merchant to drink his delicious products. Thus a private issue.<br /><br />And I might add, I care little if many people choose to drink a gallon of whiskey a day thus depressing our national life expectancy, as long as I am not required to do likewise.<br /><br />(*In a truly free society of course he moves to new housing with sewers, the old stuff is abandoned and then redeveloped).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-59418015965963607462011-11-28T20:00:49.025+00:002011-11-28T20:00:49.025+00:00If they want to get into correlations I'd rais...If they want to get into correlations I'd raise the point that as more tax-payers' money has been diverted to totalitarian health-nut lobby groups more problems have appeared; rationally, there is a cause and effect - that is money that has been taken away from providing real medical services and so <b>these lobby groups are part of the problem</b>.DerekPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-64323685903321453482011-11-28T15:21:15.985+00:002011-11-28T15:21:15.985+00:00You brew your own ND, you can afford it.You brew your own ND, you can afford it.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-2719871608782838092011-11-28T15:15:54.038+00:002011-11-28T15:15:54.038+00:00And a nasty little lie it is m8, I drink far more ...And a nasty little lie it is m8, I drink far more than 2 gallons of ethanol a week...it is a weekly chart isn't it, if its yearly its WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of whack!nominedeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06880828700080164569noreply@blogger.com