tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post3307981766469117419..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Back to the XIX centuryDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-62335180277094848362016-03-26T14:19:13.200+01:002016-03-26T14:19:13.200+01:00I find it absolutely amazing that the people in VZ...I find it absolutely amazing that the people in VZ are absolutely content with the current situation. Nobody gives a damn because they are too busy standing on lines and complaining.<br /><br />The Chavistas in charge are a bunch of dumb fat goons totaling maybe 50-100 idiots. If any of you had some balls you'd follow the ISIL strategyor even Casto's in 1958. The Chavistas are a bunch of cowards and would run off to Cuba after the first incident.<br /><br />Rather than tweeting your complaints, lock and load and make a change.Anonymous Gringo in soFLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04349474685506309416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-82646573087362663712016-03-22T00:19:03.439+01:002016-03-22T00:19:03.439+01:00The "death rate" for all species in all ...The "death rate" for all species in all nations is 100%. There are however political and natural factors contributing to the postponement of the event in regions blessed with non collectivist government models. ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣhttp://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-55385414121292300312016-03-19T02:22:10.655+01:002016-03-19T02:22:10.655+01:00Mike
I know, I know you meant 100,000 people, or d...Mike<br /><i>I know, I know you meant 100,000 people, or did you?</i><br /><br />Do the math.Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-12644549567359290672016-03-17T18:44:02.224+01:002016-03-17T18:44:02.224+01:00Excellent point! Thanks!Excellent point! Thanks!William Hubschwerlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982230953460314441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-10293982112623786862016-03-17T17:19:21.705+01:002016-03-17T17:19:21.705+01:00True,thanks. I must have swapped some numbers when...True,thanks. I must have swapped some numbers when I wrote the figures in excel (minor dyslexia). But I checked again and the correct figures are quite close to the ones I gave. The correct "improvement" is actually larger: 617, meaning the number of people at risk in Venezuela if the "improvement" disappears is 19,7440 (or assuming 50% "improvement" only 98,720.) From Boludo Tejano's comment, I see that the "improvement" in Venezuela was probably more than 50% of the US "improvement", but we cannot know for sure as we lack the % of deaths due to disease vs. crime & accidents in Venezuela at the time and today.<br /><br />LThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10506645156280694428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-86206030183047281152016-03-17T17:06:12.791+01:002016-03-17T17:06:12.791+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.LThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10506645156280694428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-52249657564295612202016-03-17T13:58:32.615+01:002016-03-17T13:58:32.615+01:00Death rate of 10,017 per 1000 people??????
Geez, w...Death rate of 10,017 per 1000 people??????<br />Geez, what's going on with you people?<br />I know, I know you meant 100,000 people, or did you?<br />MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-56674251950125389192016-03-17T13:45:40.079+01:002016-03-17T13:45:40.079+01:00Your Math is a bit fuzzy.
MikeYour Math is a bit fuzzy.<br />MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-72705639402464491542016-03-17T12:13:53.394+01:002016-03-17T12:13:53.394+01:00An analyzer out of reagents is a big, expensive bo...An analyzer out of reagents is a big, expensive box with no use for the first couple of weeks, and a big, expensive piece of junk afterwards. You can do most of the stuff under the microscope fine, but not hemoglobin and those calculated from hemoglobin. The results are less accurate, and it takes about ten times as much manpower to do the job though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-76879851545522922572016-03-17T02:03:58.110+01:002016-03-17T02:03:58.110+01:00How would anyone know Venezuela's death rate, ...How would anyone know Venezuela's death rate, most of their dead people are still voting?Canadian Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392005954549946976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-33697596950092215142016-03-17T01:55:19.737+01:002016-03-17T01:55:19.737+01:00I am sure Dios Dado can pay for it. 😲I am sure Dios Dado can pay for it. 😲Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-32769402281368368492016-03-16T21:52:41.419+01:002016-03-16T21:52:41.419+01:00Meaningless number as far as I can determine. Finl...Meaningless number as far as I can determine. Finland is 10.Dave Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355264650239868491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-52179671379681658252016-03-16T21:25:35.072+01:002016-03-16T21:25:35.072+01:00Let us for the moment imagine that Venezuela exper...<i>Let us for the moment imagine that Venezuela experienced a similar improvement [as the US] between 1950 and 2011.</i><br /><b>Crude death rate per 1,000 people<br />1960 </b><br />Venezuela 10.017<br />United States 9.5<br /><br /><br /><b>2013</b><br />Venezuela 5.488<br />United States 8.2<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators" rel="nofollow">World Development Indicators Databank (World Bank) </a> <br /><br /><br />Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-19526519597341123652016-03-16T21:06:16.815+01:002016-03-16T21:06:16.815+01:00If the people of Venezuela are not at the point ye...If the people of Venezuela are not at the point yet of marching on the Regime then what will it take? There is already no medicine, little food, little electricity, no security, poor education and no hope for it to improve (only get worse) under this regime. If the people will not march on this regime now they will only weaken over time.Canadian looking inhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060240194591839197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-30834885668164272172016-03-16T20:20:56.786+01:002016-03-16T20:20:56.786+01:00errhh.... the anaylizer is out of reagents for th...errhh.... the anaylizer is out of reagents for the test. We DO have analyzers and modern equipment, though many of them are our of service because the regime does not allow dollars for the spare parts.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-70233293391362806362016-03-16T18:34:34.776+01:002016-03-16T18:34:34.776+01:00If the lab can't test hemoglobin it means thei...If the lab can't test hemoglobin it means their hematology went about 50 years back, and are down to using microscopes. That's labor intensive to a ridicolous degree, a small analyzer can do in an hour what two people can do in a day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-33653093874062576082016-03-16T18:03:33.220+01:002016-03-16T18:03:33.220+01:00Wonder who will pay for it? Cuba? Not likely..Wonder who will pay for it? Cuba? Not likely..William Hubschwerlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982230953460314441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-17616315296708942022016-03-16T17:33:30.173+01:002016-03-16T17:33:30.173+01:00That is no problem: Trump will build a wall at Mia...That is no problem: Trump will build a wall at Miami airportDanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-47651171337321702882016-03-16T17:22:00.293+01:002016-03-16T17:22:00.293+01:00Not even then as 99% of the USA will think they ar...Not even then as 99% of the USA will think they are Mexicans.<br />You have no idea how ignorant people living in the USA are about the rest of the world.Dave Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355264650239868491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-7917946238717350492016-03-16T17:14:23.454+01:002016-03-16T17:14:23.454+01:00Until Venezuela's poor start rushing the US bo...Until Venezuela's poor start rushing the US borders....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-64232571951640021392016-03-16T16:52:22.334+01:002016-03-16T16:52:22.334+01:00Happy to help!Happy to help!William Hubschwerlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982230953460314441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-46772804401537779412016-03-16T16:32:58.436+01:002016-03-16T16:32:58.436+01:00"the evil empire up North" does not care..."the evil empire up North" does not care about VZ.<br />You are on your own.Dave Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355264650239868491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-31323226437621511192016-03-16T15:51:39.888+01:002016-03-16T15:51:39.888+01:00If your friend needs a caretaker for his farm I ca...If your friend needs a caretaker for his farm I can suggest a young unemployed lady who has a law degree and cares for a boy abandoned by his mother. However, I'm not sure if she would take it if security is a problem. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-11326320432833293862016-03-16T14:39:03.701+01:002016-03-16T14:39:03.701+01:00Interesting subconscious take over of my typing. �...Interesting subconscious take over of my typing. 😉<br />Done!Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-54269753264599411052016-03-16T14:33:04.263+01:002016-03-16T14:33:04.263+01:00You don't need to return to the 19th century t...You don't need to return to the 19th century to see a horrible situation. Just have Venezuela go back to the 1950s. I posted this (see below) in CaracasChronicles because I feel Venezuela should announce a moratorium on paying its foreign debt to buy medicine, otherwise tens of thousands of people could die.<br /><br />In the US in the 1950s health related mortality (including infant, TB, cancer, cardio & pneumo/influ) in the US was 1297 per 100K. In 2011 it was 680 per 100K. That was an improvement of 552 per 100K.<br />Let us for the moment imagine that Venezuela experienced a similar improvement between 1950 and 2011.<br />And now, let us imagine that this improvement disappears for lack of medicines etc.<br />How many people die in one year given a population of 32M? 176,896<br />The current death rate in Venezuela is 531 per 100K, equivalent to 169,920 per year, so perhaps Venezuela's progress between 1950 and 2011 was a fraction of that in the US. But even if it was 50% we are talking about 88,448 people dying as a result of lack of medicines.<br /><br />That’s genocide, no matter how you put it and paying the debt would be immoral.<br /><br />Here are my sources:<br />http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922292.html<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortalityLThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10506645156280694428noreply@blogger.com