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

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 10:00, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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
>

They are endangering everyone they come into contact with.

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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> > On Behalf Of Robert G. Kennedy III, PE via extropy-chat
>> Cc: robot at ultimax.com
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Subways and overcrowding are the big factors spreading this, not the
>> beaches
>> and businesses.
>>
>> spike
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