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Bettering chickens’ tons
more healthy for all of us
It’s a disgrace that some children didn’t have many Easter eggs to brighten this 12 months — the fowl flu affecting hens has made the value of eggs skyrocket.
We may keep away from sending hundreds of thousands of birds to a grisly dying attributable to flu if we improved their inhumane residing circumstances in industrial enterprises — tons of crowded in extraordinarily shut quarters with little or no recent air or daylight.
Whether or not you eat eggs or just take pleasure in adorning them, this can be a good second to rethink birds’ residing circumstances. We all know all too nicely that viruses can bounce from one species to a different — so cramped residing circumstances have an effect on not simply birds however people too.
Subsequent time you see a chance to signal a petition to enhance residing circumstances for birds, act on it. The higher residing circumstances we give our birds, the much less doubtless we’ll be to contract a virus that originated from them.
Patrice Wagner
Oakland
Cautious language
drives efficient coverage
Re. “What can clarify the wild winter of 2023?” (Web page A1, April 7).
Kudos for periodic graphics evaluating snowfall quantities in varied years. I’m happy you normally use “common” as an alternative of “regular” for the imply like some. “Regular” is inappropriate for 2 causes.
First, “regular” persons are not restricted to common traits. There’s all the time a spread to regular, maybe a normal deviation or two.
Second, snowpack and rainfall comply with log-normal distributions, which implies just a few giant occasions skew the common. Out of your revealed graph, one finds the common snowpack to be 120% of the median and twice the almost certainly worth. Sixty-three p.c of the years are under common. Livermore rainfall is under common 60% of the time, and 11” of rain is almost certainly, not 14.5”.
Related skewed statistics apply to revenue, home costs and plenty of different human traits. Careless phrase use can result in fuzzy considering, which may then result in poor public coverage.
Alan Burnham
Livermore
US should fund enough
international well being care
Re: “Marin County ranks healthiest in California, grapples with fairness challenges” (April 8).
Proactive well being interventions and preventative work propelled Marin County into California’s prime spot for healthiest county, however there may be nonetheless work to be executed for marginalized and underrepresented teams in Marin, all through the East Bay and globally.
Effectively-trained and outfitted well being workforces are important for constructing sustainable, resilient well being methods, particularly in areas of the world which are already a step behind. Complete main well being care can anchor a neighborhood by constructing belief by way of steady relationships with community-based suppliers. Funding in main well being care can particularly profit girls and other people in low-income nations the place geographic, political and monetary boundaries exist.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, is uniquely positioned to make a distinction as rating member of the subcommittee that decides on international assist funding. I urge her to proceed growing funding for frontline well being care staff and work to make sure that important provides are constantly stocked on the frontline.
Sabrina Baffert
Berkeley
We should defend victims
of home violence
In line with nationwide statistics, almost 20 individuals per minute are bodily abused by an intimate accomplice in the US. We’d like stricter legal guidelines concerning these accused of home violence and extra safety for the accusers.
It may take as little as half-hour to bail out of jail and commit extra crimes. Ought to the defendant bail out, they need to be held on home arrest to maintain their sufferer protected. Relocation companies must be provided to accusers for further safety. Think about the reduction a sufferer feels when their home violence abuser will get taken into custody and absolutely the horror when they’re knowledgeable they’ve been launched.
This can be a actuality for many individuals which have skilled home violence abuse. Write to the Legislature and suggest a brand new invoice that can add protections for home violence victims and maintain their abusers behind bars till they’ve confirmed their innocence within the judicial course of.
Nattaly Withington
Union Metropolis
Fox’s lies for scores
are definition of pathetic
The invention part of the Dominion voting machines defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox Information has uncovered inside Fox emails and texts which reveal that Fox anchors privately considered Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud and a stolen election as false and that a few of his authorized crew, particularly Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, had been bonkers liars.
