[ExI] shops opening

[Dylan Distasio]

I don't believe John has gotten this memo unfortunately.   Meanwhile
the world's economy burns while we suffer from a bad flu (yes, I'll own it,
this is not much worse than a particularly bad flu that focuses on the
elderly and/or those with one or more comorbidities).

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:22 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 9:34 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Since April 7 COVID-19 has been the leading cause of death in the USA,
>> beating cancer and stroke and heart disease and everything else. Stampedes
>> are not always a bad thing, it seems to me the prospect of mass death would
>> be a very good reason to start a mass stampede.
>>
>> COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States
>> <https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-leading-cause-of-death.html>
>>
>>
> ### Wuhan virus mortality is more like a rounding error on all cause
> mortality. About 2.8 million Americans will die this year. About 90 - 120
> thousand of those deaths will be due to Wuhan virus. You won't even notice
> a bump on the decadal graph of mortality.
>
> Sad, but this is life - it goes on, and then you die.
>
> Unless you get frozen - Remember to work on your Alcor applications, dear
> list members!
>
> Rafal
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