[ExI] COVID-19

[Darin Sunley]

That's because one of those numbers is a good-faith attempt to measure an
actual natural phenomenon, and one of them is barely-disguised political
propaganda generated by counting every warm body they could find a cold
virus in.

Which, to be fair, /is/ a very third-world-country kind of thing.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 6:30 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Yesterday 1,197 people in the USA died of COVID-19 bringing the total US
> death count up to 200,197. Yesterday 9 people in Canada died of COVID-19
> bringing the total COVID-19 death count up to 9,188. In India 59 people per
> million have died of COVID-19, in the USA  604 per million have died of
> COVID-19. One of these is a Third World country.
>
> John K Clark
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