Hosting Your Own Holocaust
Among the most unsettling studies ever of how stress contributes to cancer was done not long ago in Israel. Researchers tracked just under 316,000 Holocaust survivors:
. of men and women studied, Israeli Holocaust survivors were 2.5 times more likely to have had cancer than Israelis who were never immediately threatened by Nazi genocide.
. of men studied, those who spent the entire Second War in Nazi-occupied Europe, survived and then immigrated to Israel, their cancer rate (controlling for other factors) was 3.5 times those of men of the same age who somehow reached Israel during the war.
As to women who were in Europe throughout the war as opposed to those making it to Israel before May, 1945,
. their cancer rates were more than double.
And the younger a survivor was when the war began, the greater his/her chance was of developing cancer.
These are findings from hell, and I imagine they might hold for many 20th/21st Century targets of genocide durng or after which people in real numbers finally made it to safe havens.
The upshot, of course, is that the younger you are when your world’s turned upside down…when your life’s daily at risk…when this impossible existence is prolonged indeterminately…when the warm rug of familial, communal, and societal security’s yanked from beneath you…the longer this stress corrodes your guts…the greater the chance your body will one day host its own holocaust.
04/29/2021 @ 5:39 am
I believe in you Jonathan Wolfman! Why not drydock that Hudson, dust-off the Surface Pro and bring it on home? You are such a catalytic teacher, sir, and I’m going to be sure my local schoolboard gets a good gander at your astute truisms…planning out a route; so to speak! Lots of room and penny a point…also, curious if you communicate with (moniker) ASH whose last known port-0-call was Manhattan Beach, CA …
I’ve a ‘too thick tomb’ (working titel) ‘Lady Liberty’s Tear’ rather a ‘high-steppin’ poetic ‘treatment’ typed in red ink and bound with burgundy hued recycled banana peel. Felt like a fool at the John Lennon Peace Plaza reading aloud until I kept the crowd of reformed street urchins pill cups of ground round (many of whom were trying to out do Willie Nelson’s braid dexterity. Please please allow IF i’m sounding like a reformed al co hol ic…usually I introduce myself, then attempt to encourage young and old with:…:’…egocentric indulgenment is no a moral failure…it is a chemical reaction….’ Like between the crosses row on row. At least skyjacking is out the news.
‘Hosting Your Own Holocaust’ is right over the top such as a ‘Bridge Too Far’. Perhaps a scale model pancreas would accelerate our race for the cure. Ontheotherhand I’d gifted a clear extrusion molding transparent plastic to a 10 Y0 and the ‘life-like’ organs startled him to breath-caught aberration…as well as insouciant surfing [.]
01/28/2022 @ 11:58 pm
finally spellchecked good comment to Joh Wolfman
I believe in you Jonathan Wolfman! Why not drydock that Hudson, dust-off the Surface Pro and bring it home? You are such a catalytic teacher, sir, and I’m going to be sure my local school board gets a good gander at your astute truisms…planning out a route; so to speak! Lots of room and penny a point…also, curious if you communicate with (moniker) ASH whose last known port-0-call was Manhattan Beach, CA …
I’ve a ‘too thick tomb’ (working title) ‘Lady Liberty’s Tear’ rather than a ‘high-steppin’ poetic ‘treatment’ typed in red ink and bound with burgundy hued recycled banana peel. Felt like a fool at the John Lennon Peace Plaza reading aloud until I proffered the crowd of reformed street urchins pill cups of ground round (many of whom were trying to out do Willie Nelson’s braid dexterity. Please, please allow IF I’m sounding like a reformed al co hol ic…usually I introduce myself, then attempt to encourage young and old with: ’… egocentric indulgement is not a moral failure…it is a chemical reaction….’ Like between the crosses row on row.
At least skyjacking is out the news.
‘Hosting Your Own Holocaust’ is right over the top such as a ‘Bridge Too Far’. Perhaps a scale model pancreas would accelerate our race for the cure. Ontheotherhand I’d given a clear extrusion molding transparent plastic table top mannequin to a 10 Y0 and the ‘life-like’ organs startled him to breath-caught aberration…as well as insouciant surfing [.]