[ExI] puzzling

[William Flynn Wallace]

Hey Spike et alii - did you see the article on Estonia and how
interconnected they are?  Any doctor can view your medical records, with
your permission I am assuming, so if you have to go to the emergency they
can know all about your medical history.  Now if that were required, we'd
have privacy rights trouble with it, no?

bill w

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:33 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
> Of *Henrik Ohrstrom via extropy-chat
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> >…Then I apologize and Florida is doing well.
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> I do not follow the medical details of USA closely, I am busy with our own
> stupid wanking in the pandemia-biz.
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> /Henrik
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> Hi Henrik,
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> We are stupid wanking in the pandemia-biz here too.  The whole process was
> politicized from the start.  Even most yanks never did really catch on that
> to make sense of any of this, we must recognize that the US is a collection
> of more than 50 different jurisdictions, each with a governor who sets the
> policy in that state or territory.
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> Some governors recognize how different are their counties and do the
> logical thing: make only general guidelines and delegate the county health
> departments make the call.  This is how California works, as it should: we
> have several counties which have been almost untouched by covid.  There is
> no justification for harming the economies of those counties when the
> really big problems are in the Los Angeles basin.  Things are different
> down there.
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> When you think about it, there isn’t really any other good way to do it in
> the USA.  The federal government is not entitled to medical records because
> of 4th amendment rights.  States can see their counties vary widely in
> conditions.  Even counties have very different conditions within the
> county, but at some point a county health department must make a call.
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> spike
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