<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 10:58 AM Dylan Distasio 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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>John, as usual you are being over dramatic here. Current estimates for this outbreak in the US are at bad flu season levels. </i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Well, in 1918 we had a rather bad flu season and it started in early March just like this one, in less than a year it killed 675,000 Americans, ten times the number that died in WW1, and it made tens of millions of them sick. Worldwide it killed between 50 and 100 million people. And all "current estimates for this outbreak" are based on the assumption that no political leader does anything as colossally stupid as stopping the quarantine way too early. But I can think of one political leader who just might be that stupid.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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