<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 Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM Robert G. Kennedy III, PE 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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>37K, per Johns Hopkins -- we're past Korea now.<br>"Next stop: Vietnam!" (per Country Joe McDonald live @ Woodstock)<br>That is, at the current rate of accumulation of fatalities (~5K/day), we <br>
should hit that sad milestone, 58K, by early-middle next week.</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">The good news is in the US the acceleration of the death rate has slowed, it now takes 8 days for the total number of deaths to double. But I keep thinking of the 1918 flu, it's called the "Spanish Flu" but the first recorded case was in the USA, in Kansas, in March. It killed thousands of people but in the summer things got a lot better and most people thought the worst was over, but then it came roaring back far stronger than before and the vast majority of deaths occurred in the second wave in September October and November. If that happens again how are we going to run the November 3 presidential election? </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></div></div>