<div dir="auto"><div>Very few people are going to die outside of at risk groups. If you believe the CDC estimated CFRs, there is no reason to shut down entire economies:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">2</div><div dir="auto">2332.5 Symptomatic Case Fatality Ratio, stratified by age in years</div><div dir="auto">Source: Preliminary COVID-19 estimates, CDC</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">0-49: 0.0005</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">50-64: 0.002</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">65+: 0.013</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Overall: 0.004</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:22 PM Adrian Tymes 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 dir="ltr">On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 6:03 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <span style="font-size:14pt">the citizens who are not politicians are increasingly deciding their lives must go on.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, well, that's the problem. If the reports are correct, then reopening business as usual will mean that, for a large number of people, life won't go on.</div><div> </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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Government influences us, but does not control us.</span></p><p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How about common sense and a desire to continue living? It's not the government that's causing danger to lives here. </div></div></div>
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