[ExI] meanwhile, back in california...
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spike at rainier66.com
Sat Mar 7 23:04:40 UTC 2020
> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] meanwhile, back in california...
Mixing science with politics results in politics.
spike
Yeah, but I'll bet if the Gov told somebody to get trucking, something would get done The scientists have no power like that bill w
The Gov did tell somebody, and something did get done. That is how we got to these numbers in the table below. We can’t talk about them in polite company of course, for fear of making the US government look competent. That risk would be worse than the actual virus (oh horrors, how shall we cope?)
Fortunately for us, I am not polite company:
nation
confirmed cases
million proles
cases per million
times worse than USA
China
80652
1,345
60.0
49
South Korea
7041
51.26
137.4
113
Italy
5883
60.49
97.3
80
Iran
5823
84
69.3
57
France
949
65.3
14.5
12
Germany
799
83.8
9.5
8
Spain
500
46.8
10.7
9
Japan
461
126.5
3.6
3
USA
401
329
1.2
=1
Switzerland
268
8.7
30.8
25
UK
206
67.9
3.0
2
We might point out that most nations in Africa have no cases, and their governments have done nothing.
Or we might point out that travel spreads the virus. Smoking hot western economies have a lot of travel in and out. Result: rich countries get a lot of disease. Solution: shut down international travel for a few weeks. The economy will recover.
spike
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