<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">OR they are poor as shit and not testing, while attributing deaths to other causes.<div><br></div><div>Have you seen Indian trains? Slums? Markets? People packed like sardines.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 7, 2020, at 7:31 AM, John Clark 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"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">India is not a country that usually springs to mind when you think of good hygiene practices but even India has handled the COVID-19 pandemic better than the USA has. Much better. India reported its first case of the virus about the same time the US did and its first death occurred just 2 weeks after the first in the US, but as of May 7 at 12:05 GMT India has only had 1,787 deaths, but the USA has had 74,810 deaths. And yet India's population is 3.9 times as large as the US population.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">And Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere but in the entire population of 10.7 million people there has only been 12 deaths, if Haiti had the same population as the US it would have had 368 deaths. I remind you that the US has had 74,810.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>
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