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Adolescents use of tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol did not change with stay-at-home orders in northern rural California, but their physical activity dropped, according to a study today in
JAMA Pediatrics.
The researchers included two cohorts of 9th and 10th graders in their 1,006-person study: 521 who were enrolled in spring 2019 and 485 who were enrolled in fall 2019. Originally, the survey was designed to assess just physical activity and substance abuse in general, with an initial survey and a 6-month follow-up. The researchers had chosen this region because youth tobacco use is historically higher in small communities.
Because of the time between the two cohorts, those in the fall 2019 group had their 6-month follow-up survey well after the state s stay-at-home began on Mar 18, 2020 (they continued through September 2020). While the study wasn t able to capture local adherence to COVID mitigations, the researchers did note that 36% of people who lived in t
April 29, 2021
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Pamela Hieronymi, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who researches moral responsibility and free will, pointed to the ethical theory of “contractualism” as a good framework. “We know we all have to find a way to get along, and that we all have to constrain our pursuits in light of other people,” she said. “So contractualism asks: ‘What rules would we all agree to if each person gets a symmetric say?’”
Around the country, among allies and foes alike, San Francisco often acts as a byword for progressivism and queer liberation.
But the city is also the epicenter of the state s housing crisis, and for many LGBTQ seniors particularly those who are of color or trans who ve dealt with that experience, life in the City by the Bay hasn t always been somewhere over the rainbow.
Veronika Fimbres, 68, who is a former San Francisco veterans affairs commissioner and in 2018 was a Green Party candidate for California governor, has lived in the city s Sunnyside neighborhood for a dozen years. Her experience has run the gamut of housing in San Francisco.
Bay Area Reporter :: SF housing advocates work to address disparities for BIPOC, LGBTQ seniors ebar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ebar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.