[ExI] More Americans died of COVID-19 than died in battle in Korea

Sun Apr 19 13:36:10 UTC 2020

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:09 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Aw shit, I did quote him by mistake.  I thought I deleted that.
>

And you quoted me not only on that post but on this one too! And remember
you claim even the first iteration was worthless. I'm not sure of the math
but I guess that make your post 2^9 times worthless, or would it be 9!
worthless? Try for 10.

John K Clark

> Well: I look forward to him invalidating my argument because of this
> mistake.
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 08:55 Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> JOHN YOU ARE NESTING QUOTES TOO.  How daft are you?  Are you literally
>> mentally disturbed?  Look, I'll play your game, I won't quote your stupid
>> shit.  Anyone interested will have to go back and look themselves (note to
>> reader: don't, it's not worth it, just trust me on this one.) How are you
>> possibly arguing with people for nesting quotes when you are doing it
>> yourself?!
>>
>> Your next argument will be "why are you disagreeing with me if we're on
>> the same email list?"
>>
>> PLEASE shut the fuck up.  Please? :)
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 07:31 John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 9:17 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Patience is a virtue, and so is tolerance.  Also, no
>>>> shouting please.
>>>>
>>>> bill w
>>>>
>>>
>>> And incredibly you've taken me up on my invitation and generated another
>>> iteration, and so you too have just REPEATED EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THE VERY
>>> POST YOU CLAIM HAS NO VALUE!. A libertarian would not pressure somebody to
>>> stop promoting ideas he didn't like, he'd either have the courage to debate
>>> them or simply ignore posts from authors he did not think have anything
>>> worthwhile to say; but there aren't many libertarians on the Extropian list
>>> anymore and so you and SR Ballard just want to make the bad man stop. But
>>> feel free to make another iteration and repeat the post you're complaining
>>> about word for word yet again, we've already got 7 layers of nested quotes,
>>> let's try for 8.
>>>
>>> *> Never called for in this group.*
>>>
>>>
>>> NEVER? Mr. Newbie, I believe I know more about the history of this group
>>> than you do.
>>>
>>> John K Clark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:09 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:54 PM SR Ballard vi extropy-chat <
>>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *>I did not repeat any words you wrote, except incidentally.*
>>>>>> *SR Ballard*
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And you've repeated EVERY SINGLE WORD I WROTE YET AGAIN! Would you
>>>>> care to try for a third iteration?
>>>>>
>>>>> John K Clark
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 18, 2020, at 9:09 AM, John Clark vi extropy-chat <
>>>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 9:59 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
>>>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >*I have to agree. *
>>>>>>> *If I want to compare the deaths, a quick google search for the
>>>>>>> pandemic news will make the same comparison for me.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If my words were worthless then why did both you and Bill take the
>>>>>> time out of your busy lives to *REPEAT EVERY SINGLE WORD I WROTE?!*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John K Clark
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I’m sure all of us know the counts in our own country.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SR Ballard
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 17, 2020, at 8:40 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>>>>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John - who are you talking to?  Is someone advocating that that I
>>>>>>> missed?  Personally I wish you would stop sending us the counts.  But you
>>>>>>> can't, can you?  You just cannot control it.  bill w
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 7:37 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>>>>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There were 33,643 American battle deaths during the Korean war, as
>>>>>>>> if today April 17 at 11:54 GMT there were 34,641 deaths from COVID-19. It
>>>>>>>> took the Korean war 3 years one month and 2 days to manufacture that number
>>>>>>>> of cadavers. COVID-19 beat that number in just 48 days. And there are lots
>>>>>>>> of theories but nobody is certain how high that number will get, the only
>>>>>>>> thing that's certain is the number will be much higher if the quarantine is
>>>>>>>> lifted too soon.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And since April 7 COVID-19 has been the leading cause of death in
>>>>>>>> the USA killing more people per day than heart disease (on average about
>>>>>>>> 1,770 deaths per day) or cancer (about 1,640) or anything else. Yesterday
>>>>>>>> COVID-19 killed 2,174 Americans. Do you *really* think ending the
>>>>>>>> quarantine right now is a good idea?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> John K Clark
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