Re: SCOX Files Chapter 11 (Reorg)

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:13:14 -0400, Unruh wrote
(in article <eMiHi.53353$bO6.15433@edtnps89>):

Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:21:48 -0400, Floyd L. Davidson wrote
(in article <87sl5futnn.fld@xxxxxxxxxx>):
Wonderful... except the infant mortality rate in the US
is higher than New Caledonia, Cyprus, Brunei, Cuba, New
Zealand, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Canada, The United
Kingdom, Slovenia, Israel, The Netherlands, Luxembourg,
Austrailia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France,
Belgium, South Korea, Switzerland, Czech Republic,
Finland, Hong Kong, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Singapore,
and Iceland.

I'm on the "The current system is broke and something needs
to be done" side of the argument. I mentioned this to Dan who
is very conservative, I brought up the statistic about infant
mortality and he said that different countries report infant
mortality using different methods. He mentioned one country,
I don't remember which one, where if the infant was healthy
in all respects, the infant was taken to a room somewhere to
starve to death. I have no idea if this is common or not, but
it is something to consider.

Yes, but then I do not know your friend and do not have to consider
his arguments, especially ones he makes up off the top of his head.
(and I assume you meant "was not healthy in all respects"-- and
that would still count as an infant mortality.)

I don't think it was off the top of his head. He's a pretty smart fellow
not to mention highly opinionated. Correct, "not healthy in all
respects." I'm not sure how far down the list of abnormalities they
went before some threshold was crossed, that is a cleft palate is
"fixable", a blind kid wasn't, etc. But still as long as mortality rates
don't have the same definition, the rates aren't always comparable.

This is off topic anyway.


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