If he was to have prostate cancer, it would have already showed up. It's my experience of people older than me that if you get past 75 with all lights burning bright, they're likely to continue to do so for some considerable time. The people who are going to die of all that stuff by then are dead already. I have known four centenarians w…
If he was to have prostate cancer, it would have already showed up. It's my experience of people older than me that if you get past 75 with all lights burning bright, they're likely to continue to do so for some considerable time. The people who are going to die of all that stuff by then are dead already. I have known four centenarians who could have run companies. They might have used a wheelchair to get around, but I seem to recall we already did that with the greatest president of the 20th century (who wouldn't stand a chance nowadays with the views we have on disability). I was just having a conversation this morning with the teacher who opened the door to my life, who is 98, and he still drives around in Z06 Corvette.
Okay, good stuff, TC. A tad anecdotal, with the exception of FDR. I am more cautious on this than you are and would add, unlike some here, a different VP is a must. How about Buttigieg?
I'm looking for LOL from you. High expectations on this Sunday afternoon. : 0 )
I think Pete would be better, but I don't know how you switch VPs nowadays. It's not like FDR, who had four different ones in four terms and nobody thought about it. Hasn't been done like that since.
As to the "anecdotal evidence," there's actually a lot of data that for the small minority that get past the mid-70s without getting the "ills of age" that "old age" is successful and not declining. Now that I have managed not to be mauled by a bear in my 40s like my sixth great grandfather, or stick a piece of uranium in the front pocket of my workpants for six weeks like my father, it's highly likely I will follow the path of six other male direct ancestors of whom I have knowledge, all of who lived actively into their 90s. Right now, I am 2 years younger than Biden, and according to my most recent physical this past summer, my doctor told me I am "in great shape for a 50 year old."
If he was to have prostate cancer, it would have already showed up. It's my experience of people older than me that if you get past 75 with all lights burning bright, they're likely to continue to do so for some considerable time. The people who are going to die of all that stuff by then are dead already. I have known four centenarians who could have run companies. They might have used a wheelchair to get around, but I seem to recall we already did that with the greatest president of the 20th century (who wouldn't stand a chance nowadays with the views we have on disability). I was just having a conversation this morning with the teacher who opened the door to my life, who is 98, and he still drives around in Z06 Corvette.
Okay, good stuff, TC. A tad anecdotal, with the exception of FDR. I am more cautious on this than you are and would add, unlike some here, a different VP is a must. How about Buttigieg?
I'm looking for LOL from you. High expectations on this Sunday afternoon. : 0 )
I think Pete would be better, but I don't know how you switch VPs nowadays. It's not like FDR, who had four different ones in four terms and nobody thought about it. Hasn't been done like that since.
As to the "anecdotal evidence," there's actually a lot of data that for the small minority that get past the mid-70s without getting the "ills of age" that "old age" is successful and not declining. Now that I have managed not to be mauled by a bear in my 40s like my sixth great grandfather, or stick a piece of uranium in the front pocket of my workpants for six weeks like my father, it's highly likely I will follow the path of six other male direct ancestors of whom I have knowledge, all of who lived actively into their 90s. Right now, I am 2 years younger than Biden, and according to my most recent physical this past summer, my doctor told me I am "in great shape for a 50 year old."
Now that's a problem we can agree on. I'm quitting now when the quitting is good.
Another time I actually Laughed Out Loud!