[ExI] COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than Chinese

[Dylan Distasio]

I didn't say all 15 million of them were killed by it, and I'm sure a lot
drop off due to migratory workers who maybe switched coverage, but China's
society revolves around cell phones for most tasks way more than the US.
They're a mobile based society.  It's considered an essential.   If you
want to throw away that data point entirely, fine.  Focus on the urns.

Do you honestly believe the Chinese numbers on infections and deaths?  If
the answer is yes, I'm not sure we have anything more to talk about here,
but I'm surprised if you're willing to take that on faith, you also haven't
converted to Christianity and taken Pascal's wager.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:35 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 3:03 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> I wonder where all those missing cell phone users are...*
>
>
> Well...it certainly can't be because lots of people in China have lost
> their jobs due to the epidemic and would prefer to use what little money
> they still have to buy food rather than pay their cell phone bill; so the
> only conceivable explanation is that 15 million people in China were killed
> by the virus.
>
>  John K Clark
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