<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Wish I had known about that during my years as a hardcore Mormon.<div><br></div><div>And what do you mean by “biannual elections”? Church conferences? That’s not real voting. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:37 PM, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Just information for atheist trans humanists who can't organize, The membership of the <a href="https://transfigurism.org/">Mormon Transumanists Association</a> continues to grow exponentially. I believe they are now approaching 1000 members, and they are now actively involved in their bi annual elections.</div><div><br></div><div>You should definitely keep them in the loop for any transhumanist activities, if you want to expand participation.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 5:49 PM Jose Cordeiro 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><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Spike and ExI friends,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> How are you doing? I am not a regular writer here, but I do try to read most messages since there are excellent contributions, and some people here that I admire and follow from many years!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> How many participants are there in the list now? I imagine most are like me, who do not participate actively?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> By the way, I am planning to organize the next TransVision conference in Madrid, during October 16-18, or later depending on the pandemic, and I would like to invite you all to come. It will be safe, fun, educational, and immortal, so kindly share with others too, and let me know if you can participate, please: <span><a href="https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> Finally, let me share with you my interview/article/profile in the latest issue of the Alcor Cryonics magazine, I hope that you have a few minutes to take a look and comment: <span><a href="https://www.alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/cryonics2020.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cryonics Magazine 2019</a></span><div><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-530434983486901583ydpdb1b0878enhancr_card_7607040299" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/cryonics2020.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224,228,233);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:rgb(255,255,255);width:100%;max-width:400px;border-radius:0px 0px 2px 2px;border-top:1px solid rgb(224,228,233)"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:16px 0px 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 2px"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-radius:0px 0px 2px"><h2 style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42);max-width:314px">Cryonics Magazine 2019</h2><p style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;color:rgb(151,155,167)"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a><div style="width:100%;min-height:100%"><div><div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> Best of luck, keep safe, wash your hands, and welcome to Spain after the pandemic...</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font size="2"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Futuristically yours,</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="background-color:inherit"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="background-color:inherit"> La vie est belle!</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD </span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="gmail-m_-530434983486901583ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_489658" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span id="gmail-m_-530434983486901583ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_489657">(<a href="http://www.cordeiro.org" target="_blank">www.cordeiro.org</a></span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="gmail-m_-530434983486901583ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_495431" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span id="gmail-m_-530434983486901583ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_495430">)</span></font></font></div></div></div></div>
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-530434983486901583yiv8977925986"><div><div><p> </p><p> </p><p>With the recent surge in chatter here, and since there aren’t that many of us left, I propose relaxing guidelines on number of posts per day. We instituted that back in the 90s when there were a coupla hundred regular posters. Now it is down to the usual suspects, about a dozen. I propose we all just post away.</p><p> </p><p>Stanford did a study which suggests there is waaaay more Covid-19 exposure than we previously thought. My doctor contacted and wants me to come in for testing when the quarantine is over.</p><p> </p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=be77753b5f9c509cb865d14fbdaf97eeb78e11d5-1587139595-0-AWIUFx6wN0uXOvkl2GvKJJc-Ig8sPLjxRzO454lTi9KpWYjKbxnVGQzEHGD9bYZUKYUUOdrfRQ_wQREzNDVmpdEWVIZYt6UTI9m_LD7byikYQA-loXE677ZRO1gHfKAz7mccB9JD5q3Y8YVehLtYCxNulZzxgq75-rzgoHZ2Heyj5PDAftyTcJ9j-gS_9XvqhP1w_lcrCrvVy9EM4vDfOYSqAiDYODT4O2PXN776dtAuibDok5gMCdzZYcCoRi69cdjoFoqV7X4-dhUOTFhjUA5EzGIOpkN7fsqrkufnBv0pOXqb3nOUoVRFDs5ZdBzO9w_yicdwyhIdvht3lBZyMgA" target="_blank">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=be77753b5f9c509cb865d14fbdaf97eeb78e11d5-1587139595-0-AWIUFx6wN0uXOvkl2GvKJJc-Ig8sPLjxRzO454lTi9KpWYjKbxnVGQzEHGD9bYZUKYUUOdrfRQ_wQREzNDVmpdEWVIZYt6UTI9m_LD7byikYQA-loXE677ZRO1gHfKAz7mccB9JD5q3Y8YVehLtYCxNulZzxgq75-rzgoHZ2Heyj5PDAftyTcJ9j-gS_9XvqhP1w_lcrCrvVy9EM4vDfOYSqAiDYODT4O2PXN776dtAuibDok5gMCdzZYcCoRi69cdjoFoqV7X4-dhUOTFhjUA5EzGIOpkN7fsqrkufnBv0pOXqb3nOUoVRFDs5ZdBzO9w_yicdwyhIdvht3lBZyMgA</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I was very sick in December with viral pneumonia and they didn’t know what it was. I landed in the hospital. It was most unpleasant, but afterwards I self-quarantined, a long time before anyone heard of Covid. I assumed it was the worst damn flu I have ever had by an order of magnitude. </p><p> </p><p>We have a lot of regular travelers to and from China in the area. In retrospect, it is very possible that I had Covid-19. It took me four weeks to feel better, and about seven weeks before I really felt completely back to normal. If so, it would agree with what Stanford U found.</p><p> </p><p>spike</p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br></div>
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