<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">How many? Who knows. But, a LOT. We already see some indications of that from NYC. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jul 2, 2020, at 4:46 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><image001.jpg><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I want to show you something you may never see again, for I have been an occasional visitor to Stanford Medical Center for 31 years and never saw it until yesterday. I estimate about 50 trips up there total in that time, using this parking structure to donate blood or when it is time to see a doctor. I went up there yesterday for my bi-annual eye appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This photo was taken right at the bottom of the ramp from the MAIN ENTRANCE to that structure for Stanford Med, no kidding the main entrance. Usually one takes the first available parking space, but often one doesn’t even slow down here because there are never any available parking spaces this close to the entrance. You need to go down a level and even then good luck in finding even one space waaaaay the hell and gone in back.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Yesterday, I went in, 0930 most of the spaces were open. So… I parked. Having never seen this in 31 years, I took this photo.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">OK then. I went in, discovered the hospital is mostly deserted. A few patients here and there. Nothing like the usual level, just extremely low crowds. I checked in about 20 minutes early, they took me right in because no one was waiting. They did their thing, my eyes are fine for another two years.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This is Stanford Medical, always brimming with proles. Yesterday, no crowds anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A thought occurred to me. Plenty of people, especially the older ones, need constant tweaking and adjusting to their medications, blood work, measurements, coaching by doctors and experts, tweaking and such. Both my father in law and mother, both 80, need to see doctors approximately as often as the moon is new. Both suddenly stopped doing that with the epidemic.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Question please: how many will die, not from the virus but from fear of catching the virus convinces them to not see their doctor? How do we count them?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>