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

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 02:06, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >…I'd rather have the economy reopen in June, have at risk groups continue
> to shelter in place,  delay reopening extremely large gatherings like
> concert venues and stadiums, and get on with things before we end up in a
> global depression that may result in A LOT more deaths once people and
> nation states start scrambling for diminishing resources… Dylan
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> Hi Dylan, ja, I have been pondering this for some time.
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> I don’t know from viruses, but I have heard they can be preserved in a dry
> form somehow, like a powder in a vial.  Virus hipsters is this correct?
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> If so, a terrorist with a vial of the stuff could be released over a
> packed stadium or rock concert, infecting huge numbers of proles
> simultaneously, sort of a more modern version of anthrax.
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> But this could be worse than anthrax because of its ability to spread.
> What I don’t know is if Covid-19 can be preserved in a dry form.  I damn
> sure hope it cannot.
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> I live close enough to a football stadium that I can sometimes hear the
> crowds cheering.  Imagine a terrorist set up an automated quadrotor drone,
> the cheap toy ones, with some kind of system that would disperse something
> visible, such as flour.  She programs it to fly over the stadium, release
> the flour, the fans panic and trample each other to get away from it.  That
> is an example of a terrorist attack which could be done with little
> expense, risk to the bad guy, technical expertise or collaboration.  It
> would cause sports fans to trample each other even if this virus cannot be
> preserved in dry form, for those being trampled do not know that, nor do
> I.  I will offer that I will refuse to go to stadium events in the
> foreseeable.  (Full disclosure: I was present at the Led Zeppelin “concert”
> in Tampa Florida 3 June 1977 (as the designated driver (oh mercy (details
> available on request.)))
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> Every country in the world now has access to Covid-19.
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> This could singlehandedly kill stadium events of all kinds.
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Why not give everyone access to the virus under the right to bear arms?

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Stathis Papaioannou
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