<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 Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:24 PM Dan TheBookMan 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"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/18/being-more-densely/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/18/being-more-densely/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><i>Seems like the notion that living in cities is bad is groundless.</i><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I'm not surprised that factors other than population density are more important given that China, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and even Bangladesh have <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">MUCH</span> lower COVID-19 deaths than the USA in both absolute numbers and per capita. The three countries with the highest virus deaths are the USA, Brazil and the UK, and all three have a similar type of leader right now,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>totalitarian and dumb.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>