<div dir="ltr">John, as usual you are being over dramatic here. Current estimates for this outbreak in the US are at bad flu season levels. Many people end up asymptomatic, and most people who do not have underlying comorbidities or who are not elderly (who frequently have 1 or more comorbidities) recover without the need for hospitalization or ventilation. <div><br></div><div>We're going to have much larger problems to deal with if we don't start to reopen the economy once we're on the far right side of the curve. The current hide in your hole scenario is not sustainable past the end of May, and quite frankly I don't expect people to put it up with much longer. They are already protesting in Michigan over the particularly draconian measures put in place by the idiot currently running that state.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not trivializing anyone personally impacted by this disease, and every death is a great loss, but we have to make decisions at a societal level here, and keeping the entire economy shut is not sustainable.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:43 AM 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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">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. The US didn't get its first death from COVID-19 until March 1. Yesterday April 15 2,482 Americans died of it. And nobody is sure when it will stop. And you expect business as usual?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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