<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 16:39 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 11:38 AM Dylan Distasio 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"><div dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>This is not the Spanish flu. </i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">That's true it's not the Spanish flu, it's not even a variation of the Spanish flu, it's not the flu at all, it's something completely new under the sun; so optimistic predictions about this unknown quantity and the point at which the death rate will stop growing don't fill me with a lot of confidence. I hope the optimists are right, but I don't want to bet my like on it.</font></div><div> <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>The CFR for COVID-19 is MUCH lower. </i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">That's just a guess because nobody knows what the true fatality rate of the 1918 flu was or what this 2020 virus is either because nobody knows how many people had mild cases that were never reported; in 1918 you had to be pretty damn sick before you were even diagnosed with having the disease which would drive the CFR up. And even if the CFR for COVID-19 is MUCH lower that doesn't necessarily mean the number of dead bodies would be much lower too, it wouldn't be if COVID-19 is MUCH more infectious than the flu and we know so little about it that remains a possibility. </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>
_______________________________________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I feel like you're talking from a month ago. Seems like we have a pretty good handle on everything now, including models. It's not gonna be so bad. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Why are you living in hate and fear? That will kill you just like a virus. Chill out dude</div></div>