[ExI] next county

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well Dylan, what would you do?  Maybe we should have done this with the
flu.  How do you come up with an equation or something that balances
economic loss with loss of life?  How much is a life worth?  Of course if
we all stayed indoors no one would die of a lightning strike, eh?    bill w

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:50 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Well, I realize I am not following the reply instructions since I do not
> agree with John, but I'll mention again that the IFR for CV-19 in general
> doesn't warrant the amount of economic damage that has been done here, and
> that the IFR in non-elderly/non-serious preexisting conditions community is
> extremely low.   I still have seen zero evidence that this is much worse
> than the flu from a fatality rate standpoint in anyone who is healthy and
> under 60.
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 3:30 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Please respond to this email if you agree with John:
>>
>> every epidemiologist and statistician and public health official and the
>> entire scientific community is wrong and the pandemic is really not as bad
>> as they say,  John
>>
>> bill w
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:42 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Mr. Mystery Man Moderator please note, in the following I am just
>>> answering questions that the former list moderator has asked me:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> *>  I wouldn’t want to live under the same rules New York needs.  Would
>>>> you?*
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes if the threat was global not local as it is in a pandemic. If
>>> astronomers discovered an asteroid the size of Mount Everest that would
>>> slam into the earth in 20 years I wouldn't want each individual city and
>>> village and hamlet deciding independently on how to deal with the
>>> situation, I'd want a massive coordinated global strategy to figure out how
>>> to divert the damn thing and I'd want Intelligent people with lots of executive
>>> ability leading the effort.
>>>
>>>
>>>> *>  Besides that, I don’t trust the federal government.  Do you?*
>>>
>>>
>>> No, I most certainly do NOT trust the current federal government of the
>>> USA.
>>>
>>> *> Why?*
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, well as to that I can't say. I can't say because some people on this
>>> list are allowed to get political and spin conspiracy theories like, every
>>> epidemiologist and statistician and public health official and the entire
>>> scientific community is wrong and the pandemic is really not as bad as they
>>> say, and some people are not. The atmosphere around here may change in a
>>> month or two after another 100,000 Americans have died of the virus, but
>>> currently I'm #1 on the "not" list so I can say no more on that subject.
>>>
>>>  John K Clark
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