[ExI] good news for a monday morning

[Dylan Distasio]

Ending up like this is my worst nightmare.   I plan on doing my best to
self exit if needed at that point assuming I make it that long.   Of
course, if I sign up for Alcor at some point, that's an additional wrinkle
to smooth out.

I'm sorry to hear about your aunt, Bill.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:15 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Catastrophe?   I can imagine that quite a few of the nursing home people
> were glad to have a way off the planet.  A silver lining for the
> silver-headed.  I had an aunt who lived to be 96 and who was blind for the
> last 20 years.  She kept wondering why she couldn't die.  She would have
> welcomed a virus like this one.  bill w
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:22 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> This is the CDC data for all US deaths from all causes.
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>> The most recent bar is for the week ending 29 August.  They give 10 days
>> before they put the bar on there.
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>> That last week of August is lowest number of deaths in any week in the
>> last 3.7 years.
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>> https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard
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>> That big Sturgis rally apparently lowered it, but I wouldn’ta thought it
>> would lower it this much: only one part in 700 can be explained that way.
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>> European nations should have something analogous to this, ja?  What is
>> happening over there?  We know of the nursing home catastrophe: perhaps
>> covid slew the oldest and sickest, and now there are fewer left alive in
>> those categories.  Or… normal flu deaths are down because of extra
>> precautions?  Ideas?
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>> spike
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