<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 4:41 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has just issued a very strange warning, it says due to a "<i>significant increase in the number of coronavirus infections</i> " US citizens should leave Japan. But where are they supposed to go, the US? Japan has 2306 cases of COVID-19 and deaths from it are doubling every 3 weeks, the US has 271,15<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2</span> cases of COVID-1<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">9</span> and deaths from it are doubling every 3 days. </font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Given the ignorant a-holes attacking asian americans for no other reason than this virus was first identified in Asia, perhaps the embassy wanted filthy Americans to gtfo - for exactly the reason you noticed about how well our culturally conditioned stupidity turns information into behavior. </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>
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