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@petewxyz said
That would explain the epidemic of obesity then...
That's what happens when you cram more health into each person!

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Obesity rates among men in the US is fairly consistent among economic brackets and level of education.

Among women on the other hand there is a correlation. As income level drops obesity rises. As education level drops obesity rises.

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According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, ice makes the difference.
Rich people have it in the summer and poor people have it in the winter.

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@HandyAndy

That would have been true 200 years ago. Now most poor people have a refrigerator and freezer.

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@handyandy said
According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, ice makes the difference.
Rich people have it in the summer and poor people have it in the winter.
Good example as Gatsby was a snob and very wealthy

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folks with class and wealth probably own a vacation home..where they can retreat and fortify ...to avoid the panic filled masses...

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Nothing gives the common man more tranquility than being unemployed.

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@eladar said
Nothing gives the common man more tranquility than being unemployed.
and how about the common man's wife ?

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@eladar said
@HandyAndy

That would have been true 200 years ago. Now most poor people have a refrigerator and freezer.
Closer to 75 or 80 years than 200.

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"Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity, than a rich man who is crooked in his ways."

- Proverbs 28:6 ESV

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@ogb said
and how about the common man's wife ?
Many common men have had their wives walk out on them. The exception is also true that a man has left his wife, just less common.

But for the few still together, unempliyment is probably not so good for them either.

Here is an extreme example

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pennsylvania-man-upset-over-coronavirus-shoots-girlfriend-kills-himself-police-n1173881

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@eladar said
Many common men have had their wives walk out on them. The exception is also true that a man has left his wife, just less common.

But for the few still together, unempliyment is probably not so good for them either.

Here is an extreme example

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pennsylvania-man-upset-over-coronavirus-shoots-girlfriend-kills-himself-police-n1173881
that's just the beginning of all the chaos and anarchy. Now is the time to arm ourselves with multiple weapons..

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3.3 million first time applications for unemployment last week, 6.6 million this week.

The big cities will burn first and I do not live there, never have.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/02/us-food-banks-coronavirus-demand-unemployment

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@eladar said
The big cities will burn first and I do not live there, never have.
Not a problem. We don't want you.

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@eladar said
3.3 million first time applications for unemployment last week, 6.6 million this week.

The big cities will burn first and I do not live there, never have.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/02/us-food-banks-coronavirus-demand-unemployment
We are in tough times for sure! I don't think money matters at this point.

-VR