10-16-2018, 01:55 PM
I'm going to vote at City Hall in a few hours and still trying to get through the sample ballot.
I chose between all of the candidates pretty quickly. But, the measures take some time to review -- most of them are related to bonds for housing for the homeless and mentally ill, health care initiatives, taxes, and water/environmental protection.
The odd prop out is Prop 7 which would allows the State of California to do away with bi-annual time changes because:
(a) compared to typical workdays, on-the-job injuries increase by 5.7% on the few days following the “spring forward” time change as a result of less sleep,
(b) data shows deadly vehicle accidents increase on the Monday after the “spring forward” clock shift jumped to 83.6 per day compared to a typical Monday deadly accident rate of 78.2,
(c ) losing an hour of sleep has resulted in a 25% spike in heart attacks over the few days following the “spring forward” time change. Additionally researchers found strokes are 8% more likely to occur in the two days following the “spring forward” time change, with that figure jumping to 25% among people with cancer and 20% for those age 65 or older,
(d) studies show that there is no benefit to fuel conservation as a result of daylight savings time.
The argument against it is that winter mornings would be darker, which could be less safe and less convenient for school children.
That's one of three measures I'm still on the fence about.
I chose between all of the candidates pretty quickly. But, the measures take some time to review -- most of them are related to bonds for housing for the homeless and mentally ill, health care initiatives, taxes, and water/environmental protection.
The odd prop out is Prop 7 which would allows the State of California to do away with bi-annual time changes because:
(a) compared to typical workdays, on-the-job injuries increase by 5.7% on the few days following the “spring forward” time change as a result of less sleep,
(b) data shows deadly vehicle accidents increase on the Monday after the “spring forward” clock shift jumped to 83.6 per day compared to a typical Monday deadly accident rate of 78.2,
(c ) losing an hour of sleep has resulted in a 25% spike in heart attacks over the few days following the “spring forward” time change. Additionally researchers found strokes are 8% more likely to occur in the two days following the “spring forward” time change, with that figure jumping to 25% among people with cancer and 20% for those age 65 or older,
(d) studies show that there is no benefit to fuel conservation as a result of daylight savings time.
The argument against it is that winter mornings would be darker, which could be less safe and less convenient for school children.
That's one of three measures I'm still on the fence about.