[ExI] More deaths from COVID-19 than Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Does anybody still think the quarantine was an overreaction?

 John K Clark

Just finished reading The Week.  Two page story at the end about some
Republican followers in Louisiana who followed Trump and Hannity and
thought the whole thing was a hoax.  Then a guy comes down with it and is
on a machine to breath.  (I recommend that mag - $1 a week if worth it).  I
just cannot fathom how strongly political party affiliation leads people to
stupid ideas and myths and superstitions and paranoia.  I keep harping on
cognitive errors and this is why.  We all are quite intelligent but even we
(even we!!) are not immune to them.   bill w

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:09 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday April 1 at 17:34 GMT 4,516 Americans had died from COVID-19
> and that is greater than the 4415 that died in the Iraq war. Today Friday
> April 3 at 17:00  GMT 6714 Americans had died from COVID-19 and that is
> greater than the 6637 Americans that had died in the Iraq and Afghanistan
> wars combined. And the US only had its first COVID-19 death on March 1.
> Does anybody still think the quarantine was an overreaction?
>
>  John K Clark
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