<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue., Apr. 7, 2020, 8:15 a.m. John Clark via extropy-chat, <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">"It's reasonable to assume part of the reason for this is sick people are reluctant to go to a hospital and possibly get infected, but that may not be the entire answer. People are probably exercising less now, could they have been doing too much before?"</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">It's possible that people may minimize many types of symptoms, and not just those of respiratory illness, to avoid uncomfortable considerations of physical health and interaction with the health care system. I wonder, on the other end of the spectrum, how many asymptomatic hypochondriacs are showing up at testing centers and emergency departments? I've had a half dozen 20 minute phantom sore throats in the last month. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br>
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