re: #26 Joe Bacon 🌹

Friends tell me my once thriving mill town is now just one big crack house and shooting gallery…

That is so sad. And those populations have significantly higher mortality. So the portrait of the Knapp family discussed here yesterday reflects the lives of your classmates who did not escape to healthier communities. This is the nightmare world of the Russians, whose life expectancy gives them 3rd world status — actually most of the third world is doing better than Russia.