<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 10:43 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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:10 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I fail to see why people are freaking out about the virus when they have been so silent about issues that--by the numbers--are far worse.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Because deaths from cigarettes and obesity are not increasing exponentially, deaths from this novel virus are. </font></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Completely ignoring a huge piece of information--covid pretty much has a maximum death count. 2 million in US with no distancing (so they say). The deaths from tobacco are many fold higher and have no sign of ending any time soon. You're acting like covid could exponentially increase forever. You understand the models, yes? There is a peak. There is a highest estimate for deaths. For tobacco, no such peak--just an ever climbing slope.</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">
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