<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 23:03, spike jones 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 lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-947939123426000276WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>… that does not bode well for the recent rash of reopenings that have been urged by some politicians…</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Some politicians may have their views, but over time, the citizens who are not politicians are increasingly deciding their lives must go on. They open in defiance of government orders. We see examples of it everywhere, and more every day. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">At some point, life must resume. Society cannot survive without its workers. Not everyone can do their work from home.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Government influences us, but does not control us. Most of the world does not live under totalitarianism.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Eventually, people will go back to work. But if people are reluctant to go out and spend money because of fear if a deadly disease, jobs will be lost, and then people will be even more reluctant to go out and spend money, because their own job or their investments will be at risk. This is in addition to the direct effects of the deadly disease. Eventually some sort of equilibrium will be reached. It is the job of governments to try to tweak the equilibrium point to be more more favourable, since they have influence through regulation, spending and advertising. It isn’t obvious what the best course of action is, but they can only act on the best available advice.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-947939123426000276WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>