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Old 04-15-2021, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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Here are some typical street scenes in Salvador, Bahia's largest city:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.980...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.964...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.986...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.005...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.971...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.902...7i13312!8i6656

There is NOTHING in Los Angeles that looks remotely like that. The worst in LA looks something like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0368...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9394...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0259...7i16384!8i8192
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Old 04-15-2021, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Yep, lots of atheletic looking people with very few if any strollers in tow in those views of Salvador, Bahia.

Los Angeles poor and middle-class neighborhoods pre-pandemic had tremendous amounts of obese women and men with their five plus obese, coughing children from those dirty century old Los Angeles apartments they reside in with their 3 and 4 generations.

Yeah, in poverty-ridden Los Angeles neighborhoods a vast majority are walking arond with 4 kids and another one or two in strollers.

Looking at Salvador, Brazil seems quiet with maybe one elderly person sitting on a porch and looks very quaint.

I guess in Salvador, Brazil they know there is more to life then eating slop off unsanitary food carts and getting pregnant every year and living a dozen to a shack like in South and East Los Angeles

A large percentage Angelenos just sit around eat slop off food carts and are baby factories who 3 or 4 generations in a house.
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Old 04-15-2021, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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And last but not least, the 2 Brazilian states the OP mentioned have murder rates that make LA look like Nebraska:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...by_murder_rate

As of 2012:
Bahia: 58.9 murders/100K people
Pernambuco: 30.1 murders/100K people

In 2013, Los Angeles had a murder rate of 6.3 per 100K people.
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Old 04-15-2021, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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Looking at Salvador, Brazil seems quiet with maybe one elderly person sitting on a porch and looks very quaint.
Homicide rate in Salvador, Brazil: 47.47 murders/100K people (source)
Homicide rate in Los Angeles: The aforementioned 6.3 murders/100K people.

Yeah, Salvador is really quiet.
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Old 04-15-2021, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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The OP picked literally the WORST part of Brazil and had the audacity to compare it to Los Angeles!
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Old 04-15-2021, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Homicide rate in Salvador, Brazil: 47.47 murders/100K people (source)
Homicide rate in Los Angeles: The aforementioned 6.3 murders/100K people.

Yeah, Salvador is really quiet.
Yes, the homicide rate is much lower in Los Angeles. It's a high crime city, but that is correct that part of Brazil has fairly high rates of homicide.

I rarely bring up Los Angeles homicide rate though on the forum because per-capita it's a fraction of say Kansas City, St. Louis or Juarez.

But, COVID-19 death rates much more than made up for that!
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Old 04-16-2021, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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Who cares about medical susceptibility?

According to your own link this comes from socio-economic reasons and calorie in take.

Being obese is terrible. It slows you down, it makes more sedentary, makes you unattractive, you take space in public area, you become lethargic, bitter, you don't get to enjoy life as much.

Being fat is the problem, not diabetes or heart disease.
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