{"id":4655,"date":"2009-04-08T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2009-04-08T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:36:49","slug":"exterminators_not_e-z_passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/exterminators_not_e-z_passes.html","title":{"rendered":"Exterminators, Not E-Z Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/07\/health\/07asth.html\">higher-than-normal asthma rates in the Bronx are the result of cockroaches<\/a> and not car pollution (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/flack_jacket_fi.html\">as the mayor repeated over and over with scientific certainty<\/a>*), I suppose that means that congestion pricing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/the_luxury_of_trees.html\">trees<\/a> are really unnecessary then:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, one that strikes the poor disproportionately. Up to one-third of children living in inner-city public housing have allergic asthma, in which a specific allergen sets off a cascade of events that cause characteristic inflammation, airway constriction and wheezing. <\/p>\n<p>Now, using an experimental model that required leaving the pristine conditions of the lab for the messier ones of life, a team of scientists from the Boston University School of Medicine have discovered what that allergen is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For inner-city children,&#8221; said the lead researcher, Dr. Daniel G. Remick, a professor of pathology, &#8220;the major cause of asthma is not dust mites, not dog dander, not outdoor air pollen. It&#8217;s allergies to cockroaches.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/07\/science\/07tier.html\">He&#8217;s been doing that a lot lately<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if higher-than-normal asthma rates in the Bronx are the result of cockroaches and not car pollution (as the mayor repeated over and over with scientific certainty*), I suppose that means that congestion pricing and trees are really unnecessary then: Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, one that strikes the poor disproportionately. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality_of_life","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}