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

[Will Steinberg]

That map kinda sucks though.  It should really be per capita.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 11:06 spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
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> >…So if you were devising a system from scratch and were looking at a map
> of the country but knew nothing about the states…
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> If you were devising a system from scratch you would have a map of the
> states but would know nothing about the country.  It wasn’t yet a country
> in the 1780s.  But there were governments for the colonies.  The United
> States was formed by unifying 13 countries, which is why this sentence
> starts with “The United Sates was…” rather than “The United States were…”
> Unifying 13 independent countries into one powerful union made the
> transition from our saying “the US are” to the “the US is.”
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> It can be undone however.  All you need is a constitutional convention to
> abolish the electoral college.  You need to get 38 of the states to buy in,
> most of which would be giving up power.  So do it.  Go for it.  I will even
> take one of your bumper stickers.  Then I will put it in my filing cabinet
> along with my Johnson/Weld sticker I never put on my truck.
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> Since we are talking about data, and Wyoming keeps coming up, notice if
> you go by total counts, Wyoming is doing the best job of any state.
> California and New York were the first to turn dark red.  If that is a
> useful data, then Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota are the government
> models we should be following, ja?
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> I read disparaging comments here about Arkansas, but they are doing well,
> far better in total cases than California and New York.  Perhaps that
> anonymous politician from Arkansas who wrote the legal definition the
> militia isn’t stupid, but rather knows what she is doing.
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> Whatever California and New York are doing is clearly failing.  Wyoming
> Montana and North Dakota are succeeding.
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> See the value of states?  I love state governments and the whole notion of
> uniting states in common defense, in establishing justice, ensuring
> domestic tranquility, promoting the general welfare and securing to
> ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty.  State governments
> are our friends.  States show us the way.  Unite them, support them, salute
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