[ExI] bikers again and smallpox

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, correlation does not imply causation. SR Balard
This is one of the worst insults I have ever seen in these posts.  Why
don't you ask him if he understands correlation?

bill w

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:59 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] bikers again and smallpox
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> Spike, correlation does not imply causation.
>
> The states probably didn’t shut down simply because they didn’t need to.
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> About half of them have very low population density, and have a lack of
> cities.
>
> SR Ballard
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> Ja.  Dense packing is a big factor, perhaps the most important one.
> Clearly we have dense packing in a nursing home.  We had dense packing at
> Sturgis.  We have dense packing on subways.
>
> I don't know what else to do but watch and wait.
>
> Interesting aside: California is a state which has nearly as much
> variation by county as the US has by state.  Some counties, such as Los
> Angeles, are packed to the rafters nearly everywhere.  But up in the
> northeast part of the state, you will find some of the loneliest most
> sparsely populated places anywhere in the country.  Several counties up
> that way never had a covid fatality.  Plenty of those counties really don't
> have the option to shut down their economies, because that is the lifeline
> of many of the residents there.  So... California decided to empower the
> county health departments.
>
> However... counties are not uniform either.  Elon Musk is down on the
> southern edge of the county in a place where it looks like the border kinda
> just wandered down and accidentally took in his factory.  That county takes
> in the densely populated east side of the Bay, Oakland, Berkeley, San
> Leandro, Newark, those kindsa places.
>
> Musk made his factory safe by eliminating the need for people to ever come
> in close contact, then opened it up in defiance of county rules.  The
> sheriff called him and explained what he was asked to do, Musk met him out
> in the parking lot, photographers recorded him accepting his 50 dollar fine
> while shaking rubber gloved hands with the sheriff and everyone in masks.
>
> Then it was on with the business of stamping out electric cars.  The
> citation was framed and hung on the wall of Musk's office.  How could ya
> not like that guy?  He is feeding thousands of people dependent on Alameda
> County.
>
> spike
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