<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 Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:51 PM Darin Sunley 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"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless</i><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Those numbers are not meaningless, they give you a good lower bound for the true number infected with COVID-19, but the less testing a nation does, such as in the US, the further from the grim reality those numbers will be. Also, unlike determining infection it's rather easy to tell if somebody is alive or dead, so the death doubling time needs little interpretation or spin.</font><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></font></div></div>