<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 2:36 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I don’t think current conditions will lead to an immediate breakdown of the national political system.</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">That depends on how extensive the infection is and that is a big unknown due to the irresponsibly slow response by the government in making DNA Corvid-19 testing kits. South Korea, a country with one seventh the population of the USA, has tested 66,652 of its people and found 1766 confirmed cases. The USA has 60 confirmed cases (not 15 as the President said in his press conference) but due to the severe shortage of test kits to this day only 445 Americans have ever been tested, the city of Hong Kong tests 1000 of its citizens every day. Only about a dozen state and local health departments in the USA have any testing kits at all and are so rare they must be carefully rationed, California with a population of 40 million only has 200 kits. Meanwhile South Korea manufactures thousands of kits a day because they took this pandemic seriously from day one. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div>
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