"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose?  Or, I mean it's nor relevent.  So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

--former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the eve of the Iraq war (2003)

The EPA is about to make Muscatine County a Non Attainment area, and many citizens are saying oh, well that's just the smell of money.  Did any of you ever consider this pollution is killing you as well?

What's nor relevant? Is that anything like a noreaster? Or Nor to Alaska?

You posted a long time ago that you were glad you did not live here anymore, republibub. Why do you care? Or; were you lying again then?

"Pollution is killing you as well"????

According to the actual statistics, Muscatine County appears to have a death rate no greater, and slightly less than most other counties in the U.S.

http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/tools/data-visualization/life-expectancy-county-and-sex-us-1989-2009#/overview/explore

In addition:

"Muscatine, IA

Countywide statistics, 1999-2001

• Total deaths:1,124
• Cancer deaths:255
• Motor vehicle accident deaths: 20

According to figures compiled by the Centers for Disease Control, 1,124
people died in Muscatine County in the years 1999-2001. The county death rate
was 9 per thousand people, compared with 10 per thousand people statewide.

During the same period, 255 people died from cancer. The county death rate
from cancer was 2 per thousand people, compared with 2.2 per thousand
statewide.

A reported 20 people died in motor vehicle accidents. The county death rate
from such accidents was 0.2 per thousand people, compared with 0.2 per thousand
statewide.

The average age of people living in Muscatine County at the time of the 2000
census was 36.5, compared with 37.6 statewide and 36.2 nationwide.

• Iowa state health
  department