<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Does anybody still think the quarantine was an overreaction? </span></font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default"> John K Clark</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">Just finished reading The Week. Two page story at the end about some Republican followers in Louisiana who followed Trump and Hannity and thought the whole thing was a hoax. Then a guy comes down with it and is on a machine to breath. (I recommend that mag - $1 a week if worth it). I just cannot fathom how strongly political party affiliation leads people to stupid ideas and myths and superstitions and paranoia. I keep harping on cognitive errors and this is why. We all are quite intelligent but even we (even we!!) are not immune to them. bill w</span></font></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:09 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">On Wednesday April 1 at 17:34 GMT 4,516 Americans had died from COVID-19 and that is greater than the 4415 that died in the Iraq war. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Today Friday April 3 at 17:00 GMT 6714 Americans had died from COVID-19 and that is greater than the </span>6637 Americans <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that had </span>died in the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Iraq</span> and Afghanistan<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> wars combined. And the US only had its first COVID-19 death on March 1. Does anybody still think the quarantine was an overreaction? </span></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>
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