<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 Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:27 AM spike jones 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"><span style="font-size:16px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>we have taken a very liberal approach: counting anyone who dies with the virus and dying of the virus. </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Almost certainly we are seriously underreporting the number of people who have died of COVID-19. Even if you subtract out the numbers that have officially died of COVID-19 the number of Americans who have died in late March April and early May is still <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">nearly</span> 50% greater than the number of Americans who died last year during the same months.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.html">U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">J<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ohn K Clark</span></font></div></div>