[ExI] new covid case rates

[William Flynn Wallace]

 I got my vaccination today.  No side effects yet.



spike     I had no side effects after my second shot, but my wife got a
migraine after her second.  (she is prone to headaches - I am not)   bill w

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 9:25 PM 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 *John Grigg via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] new covid case rates
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> >…When will President Biden create a federal mandate to have one set of
> strict rules for the entire nation?
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> Never.  He would if he could.  He doesn’t have the authority to do that.
> But Biden doesn’t create federal law.  Congress does.  Then the Supreme
> Court has to buy in.  So… to answer your question: never.
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> >…This long-standing piecemeal approach to containing the virus in
> America is ridiculous!
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> But trying to do anything at the national level is far more ridiculous and
> dangerous.  There are no possible rules that would work for both New York
> City and Wyoming.
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> As it turns out, that is a big enough challenge for states.  Well, too big
> actually.  California tried, but their attempt was mostly a failure.  They
> passed the authority on down to the counties.  That kinda approach mostly
> failed too.  For instance, if county rules are ignored, what then?
> Consider the Tesla factory up the street.  The county demanded Musk shut it
> down.  He opened it up.  They weren’t going to risk pissing off their money
> cow.  So… the county backed down.  Elon kept turning out electric cars.
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> At the county level, who has the authority to do anything to flagrant
> violators?  The sheriff?  She can’t enforce that which isn’t a law.  Only
> the state legislature can pass laws.  They didn’t.  So… there was no law,
> and still isn’t.
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> Law isn’t the way to go against disease in times when existing law isn’t
> being enforced.
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> >I suppose the hope is that when enough people are vaccinated, that the
> pandemic will finally go away, or at least be ignorable.  John
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> We developed a bunch of new technologies to create vaccines and distribute
> them.  I got my vaccination today.  No side effects yet.
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:09 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Not trying to start a discussion, but the data on this link is
> interesting.....
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> https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/
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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 8:00 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5:39 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] new covid case rates
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> >…I seem to recall an aerial photo you sent me with the prices of the
> houses on it.  I assumed that it was an area you lived in - correct?  If so
> you are definitely urban.  Rural houses have much more distance between
> houses.  This assumes that I know something about urban sociology (but I
> don't)  bill w
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> Ja.  If here is urban, then most of the US population is urban.  What we
> need is to somehow divide the population down the middle, if that can be
> done.  But even that is very ambiguous, because people travel.  It isn’t
> the housing density that matters as much as the population density in the
> houses.  Many urbanites seldom go outdoors, but many rural dwellers travel
> every day to the city.
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