[ExI] Urban density and coronavirus

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 06:45, John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 3:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *> Hi Dan, this article is focused on covid, but there is are other (and
>> perhaps more immediate) risks in the city, such as widespread lawlessness.
>> What happens if a chain-reaction looting of the food retailers takes place
>> in other big cities as it has in parts of Chicago? *
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> COVID-19 has, just since March, killed 122,211 Americans, that's more than
> twice as many as died in the entire Vietnam war. As far as I know
> protesters, and even looters and rioters, have not killed or even seriously
> injured one single person, so as "widespread lawlessness" goes that's
> pretty tame.
>

Not directly, but they might be responsible for the deaths of thousands
through increasing spread of the virus.

> --
Stathis Papaioannou
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