<div dir="auto"><div>Bit scary but the integral is still far lower than those 2 and the difference is those 2 don't have a peak, the integral just keeps growing forever.  The integral for covid flattens off soon.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also since deaths follow cases this was obvious and would have been news about a week or two ago when cases peaked.  Meaning: we almost definitively know the future for this graph (as long as CFR doesn't change) and it will be below those rates again if it is proportional to cases (it is.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So the real story is: weekly deaths from covid BRIEFLY OUTSTRIPPED those others.  Still scary but much less fearmongering (and more true) than what you said.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 07:53 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Forget Cancer, forget Heart Disease, forget the flu, forget car crashes; Covid-19 is now the leading cause of death for Americans. Take a look at this very interesting graph:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.themaven.net%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fimages.saymedia-content.com%252F.image%252FMTcyMDIyNzk2NzkxMDYzNjg3%252Fcovid-19-new-deaths-weekly-2020-04-21.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestreet.com%2Fmishtalk%2Feconomics%2Fcovid-19-deaths-in-context-and-the-absurdity-of-flu-comparisons-ClxUEHkoOkWfZPNO2X9Jow&tbnid=GlP458-Jam9GUM&vet=12ahUKEwi_-L73-oDpAhUH06wKHUnfDvQQMygAegUIARDuAQ..i&docid=DqwQ5MKzONLlKM&w=1031&h=614&q=new%20deaths%20weekly&ved=2ahUKEwi_-L73-oDpAhUH06wKHUnfDvQQMygAegUIARDuAQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Graph of deaths per million versus time</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div>
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