XPost: phl.media, pa.politics, pa.general   
   XPost: ca.general   
   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:30:29 GMT, tfsl  wrote:   
      
   >Karen you work for hospitals,   
      
   No, I don't. I told you this before. I work for Penn's   
   School of Medicine. The med school is connected to the Penn Health system   
   but they're separate institutions as far as employees go.   
      
   > and must know that everything in body is   
   >connected.   
      
   Sure, I do. That's why I'm saying one's DNA plays a huge role in the   
   outcome of ones' life.   
      
   The discussion of just what role environment plays in someone's   
   life is still being debated. But, it seems, that Nature is winning   
   over Nuture and what you are born with determines a lot   
   of how you eventually turn out.   
      
   > It   
   >might not affect you the way it affects me,   
      
   It's obvious it doesn't; I'm not sick.   
      
   >but we do have ways to   
   >objectively judge danger, how can you ignore all the negative ratings to our   
   >health from f rated to sperlings list of cities low rating,   
      
   Look, if they do not apply to *my life* why do I need to belabor what   
   the ratings say?   
      
   There comes a  time in one's life(because of my age   
   I'm getting close to that time) when public crusades are   
   counter-productive. If I have a good quality of life now(I do)   
   what I need to focus on is keeping that going as long as possible.   
      
   Since I don't have the physical issues you do, the world looks   
   "happier" to me.   
      
   > to number one   
   >for asthma and respiratory deaths from a universtiy study by the way in   
   >Philadelphi ( I think it was Temple) and of course anyone can read the links   
   >to the damages our major news ignores.   
      
   You know if a lot of Phildelphians would just stop smoking a lot   
   of those respiratory deaths would disappear.   
      
   > We just heard about kids right outside Phily with   
   >whopping cough?   
      
   I didn't hear about that. But there are a lot of kids today   
   who haven't had whooping cough vaccine which is inexcusable imo.   
      
      
   > I will tell you it was not good, and compare   
   >that to the people who got good air? No whooping cough there?   
      
   Whooping cough(pertussis) is *contagious* and is   
   probably caused by a virus.   
      
   > Sure you might   
   >find whooping cough in clean air   
      
   So now you're deciding that whooping cough is part   
   of the "particulate" count???   
      
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