[ExI] COVID-19 has killed more Americans than the Vietnam War

[William Flynn Wallace]

How do we feel about the NYC major breaking up a big crowd of Orthodox
Jews?  As libertarians we might say that if they want to expose themselves,
it's their right, and of there is the Bill of Rights.

But then their children are not being given a choice, so the mayor may be
saving lives.

bill w

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 4:47 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > On Behalf Of Robert G. Kennedy III, PE via extropy-chat
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] COVID-19 has killed more Americans than the Vietnam War
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> I was one day off this sad milestone.  I was not expecting the daily death
> rate to spike again to a near-9/11-equivalent per day.  Granted, these
> curves are squirrelly.
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> Spike, you gotta stop saying "this is like the flu".  It is not flu.
> You are going to get people killed with that advice.
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> K3
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> Hi K3,
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> I don't recall saying this was like the flu or offering anyone advice.
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> If what I had in December was C-19, do let me assure you, it was not like
> any flu I ever had, or anything else I have ever had.
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> My suggestion is that the house-arrest notion might be exactly the wrong
> thing: they should be shutting down subways, airlines, cruise lines and
> buses.  If we have strict house arrest, anyone infected in the family would
> infect everyone else in that home.
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> I will note that New York and New Jersey, two states completely dependent
> on
> mass transit to get proles in and out of their mega-metropolis, account for
> more C-19 deaths than the other 48 states combined.  My friend from upstate
> New York reminds me that nearly all of their case load is right down there
> in NYNY, not in New York state.
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> Subways and overcrowding are the big factors spreading this, not the
> beaches
> and businesses.
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> spike
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