<div dir="ltr"><div>We have a deadly, very contagious disease called influenza every year which does not shutdown entire economies. There are very well defined high risk groups for CV-19 lethality. </div><div><br></div><div>The economic impact has been driven both by the fear that has been induced in most populations globally by government officials and the media, and by official mandate that attempts to make examples of offenders. Yes, of course, there would still be significant impacts on some sectors in any case but many people would not be exhibiting current behaviors with no mandate if they understood how low the actual risk of death is in most portions of the population.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:11 PM Stathis Papaioannou 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><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Government-mandated shutdowns are not the primary cause of the economic downturn. Having a deadly contagious disease in the community would severely damage an economy even if the government actively tried to encourage normal economic activity.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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