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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 yr — the chook flu affecting hens has made the worth of eggs skyrocket.
We may keep away from sending thousands and thousands of birds to a grisly demise resulting from flu if we improved their inhumane residing circumstances in business enterprises — a whole bunch crowded in extraordinarily shut quarters with little or no contemporary air or daylight.
Whether or not you eat eggs or just get pleasure from adorning them, this can be a good second to rethink birds’ residing circumstances. We all know all too nicely that viruses can soar 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 possible 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 variety to regular, maybe a regular deviation or two.
Second, snowpack and rainfall comply with log-normal distributions, which suggests a couple of giant occasions skew the common. Out of your revealed graph, one finds the common snowpack to be 120% of the median and twice the more than likely 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 more than likely, not 14.5”.
Related skewed statistics apply to earnings, home costs and lots of different human traits. Careless phrase use can result in fuzzy pondering, which might then result in poor public coverage.
Alan Burnham
Livermore
US should fund sufficient
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 high spot for healthiest county, however there's nonetheless work to be achieved for marginalized and underrepresented teams in Marin, all through the East Bay and globally.
Properly-trained and outfitted well being workforces are important for constructing sustainable, resilient well being programs, particularly in areas of the world which can be already a step behind. Complete major well being care can anchor a group by constructing belief by steady relationships with community-based suppliers. Funding in major well being care can particularly profit ladies and other people in low-income international locations the place geographic, political and monetary limitations 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 employees and work to make sure that important provides are constantly stocked on the frontline.
Sabrina Baffert
Berkeley
We should shield victims
of home violence
In line with nationwide statistics, practically 20 folks per minute are bodily abused by an intimate companion in the USA. We'd like stricter legal guidelines relating to 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 providers must be supplied to accusers for additional safety. Think about the aid 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 section of the Dominion voting machines defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox Information has uncovered inner Fox emails and texts which reveal that Fox anchors privately seen 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, have been bonkers liars.
But Fox continued to offer loads of airtime and assist to those false claims, particularly, that Dominion voting machines would change Trump votes to Joe Biden votes and thereby steal the election. Fox selected this dishonest path as a result of Fox viewers demanded pro-Trump positions and Fox scores started to tank when Fox broadcast something opposite.
Fox mendacity to its viewers jogs my memory of the enduring line from Jack Nicholson within the movie “A Few Good Males”: “You may’t deal with the reality.” Pathetic throughout.
Bob Benson
Lafayette