[ExI] The Japanese mystery: why so few COVID cases?

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *Sure, but Trump didn’t say that however. *
>

The title of the puff piece was "*WHITE HOUSE*:  US taking  'very liberal'
approach to counting COVID-19 deaths", so... ..the White House is saying it
but Trump isn't saying it? Who said 'very liberal', a house that happens to
be white?

>*Ambassador and head of the coronavirus task force, Dr. Deborah Birx *
>

No. Mike Pence is head of the coronavirus task force, the same guy who
bungled the AIDS virus epidemic when he was governor of Indiana.

*> said it.  It doesn’t matter if it comes from a very liberal website, for
> this does not give it inherent credibility.  Dr. Birx is still the source:*
>

And Dr. Birx is the one who was standing 2 feet from Trump when he said on
national TV that injecting people with disinfectant might be a good idea,
and she said absolutely nothing to contradict him!

Birx risks reputation in bid to keep on Trump's good side
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/dr-deborah-birx-coronavirus-taskforce-trump>

So far Trump hasn't been able to meddle with the official virus
statistics.... but give him time...

Trump’s plan to limit the pandemic’s death toll: Undercount the numbers
<https://www.vox.com/2020/5/14/21257247/trump-coronavirus-death-stats>

John K Clark
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