[ExI] Even India and Haiti do it better

[William Flynn Wallace]

Yea!!  I am going back to my barber next week.  I will be very interested
to see what 6 foot scissors look like.  bill

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:45 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >… By the way, the new death number for America is 78,616. and at the
> beginning of March the number was zero.  John K Clark
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>  *John, this makes it sound like you are cheering for the virus. *
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> >…I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable…
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> Does it make you comfortable?  It feels like you are trying to leverage a
> crisis into an opportunity.
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> >…to be reminded of the grim reality that an American dies of this virus
> about every 49 seconds, but with all Trump's grandiose talk…
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> The Federal government doesn’t have the final say on that.  It can advise,
> but governors have a lot more authority, counties and cities make the final
> call.  So why keep focusing attention up where it doesn’t do much good?
> From what I can tell, this is mostly a county-level leadership issue, where
> county health departments make the call.  That is what is going on in
> California: the counties with the biggest cities are setting the strictest
> standards.  That causes problems for those of us who don’t live in those
> cities, but out here in the suburbs.
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> If presidents are really that important, I don’t see you posting curses on
> Xi Jinping.  Why is that?
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> >…of opening up and getting back to normal it might be relevant to
> remember that people are suffering and dying right now, and Trump's idea
> would make it much worse…
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> Trump doesn’t make the call on that.  Never let a good crisis go to waste?
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> >…And I'm not likely to be cheering the virus when I could very well
> become Trump's next victim.  And the new number is 78,701.  John K Clark
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> May you escape all illness John.  May we all.
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> We cannot effectively make nation-level rules that apply to everyone.
> Even state level is difficult, with a perfect example being New York.  That
> is a state completely dominated by the city.  Most of New York is rural,
> with plenty of people who do not get paid if their businesses stay closed
> because of rules designed for the city.  They are pissed.  They want to
> re-open, and they should if they can do it safely.  They don’t have
> subways, they don’t have high-rise condos out there.  A lot of upstate New
> York is as sparsely populated as the Midwest.
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> There are co-factors in New York city with the mass transit: they have the
> tall buildings.  I haven’t heard of studies on whether people who live and
> work in those buildings but I would think that is what we should be
> examining.  It makes sense to me that people in there share hallways,
> offices, breath each others’ air.  In about a dozen locations, we have
> created a system inherently vulnerable to contagion.  I see no good way to
> undo that.
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