[ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
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Subject: Re: [ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review

On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 16:49, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> I am imagining Chinese apartment buildings full of guys with his mindset.  They are being locked into a tower with no egress allowed, even in a fire, authorities under orders to use lethal force to protect the proletariat against… a mild flu.
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> spike
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"mild flu" ???    There ain't no such animal.
If you get flu you're in bed, out of commission for up to 7 days.
(Assuming no other medical conditions - flu kills many people).
As the doc said - "If you can walk into my clinic you haven't got flu!
 You've just got a bad cold."

BillK

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That depends on what strain of flu BillK.  I was an early catcher of covid, that was the worst sick ever, took me over two months to get even close to normal.  Caught again in July 2022.  Covid test was showing positive before I felt symptoms.  The positive line went past pink into deep purple, so I don't doubt it was really covid.  Those daily tests were showing positive for two solid weeks plus a day or two with a fainter positive signal, but the symptoms never amounted to much.  I was sleepy for about two days, never lost my appetite, nothing much on the way of congestion, no sneezing or runny nose, never really felt all that communist the whole time.  If I were to compare to other flus over the years, I would rank this one about 20th percentile in severity, if that much.  Probably more like 15th percentile.

My bride caught it from me a coupla days later, tested positive for only ten days.  She was down only for one, with similar symptoms: mostly sleepiness.  My son caught it, tested positive for less than a week, scarcely noticed he had ever been sick.  He didn't miss any activities, didn't suffer much.  Slept a little longer.

This virus morphed into a variant which doesn't do much, but we know it is highly contagious (it is STILL making the rounds at the high school) and has side effects.  Months later, my sense of smell and taste are diminished to perhaps 10% what they were.  I save a bundle: no point in buying escargot if I can't distinguish it from crud-encrusted garden slugs (which are free.)

But all this gives me an idea.  Give me a few hours to think.

spike