[ExI] meanwhile, back in california...

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well, you did not say that Mrs. Cummins finally got tested.  And the
airlines will suffer greatly, though I cannot get too upset about that.
 bill w

On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 5:06 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] meanwhile, back in california...
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> Mixing science with politics results in politics.
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> 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
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> 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
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> China
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> 49
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> South Korea
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> 51.26
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> 137.4
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> 113
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> Italy
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> 5883
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> 60.49
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> 97.3
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> 80
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> Iran
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> 5823
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> 84
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> 69.3
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> 57
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> France
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> 949
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> 65.3
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> 14.5
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> 12
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> Germany
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> 83.8
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> 9.5
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> Spain
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> 10.7
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> Japan
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> 126.5
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> USA
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> 401
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> 329
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> Switzerland
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> We might point out that most nations in Africa have no cases, and their
> governments have done nothing.
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> 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.
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