<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 Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:05 AM Keith Henson 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"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Right now deaths are lagging behind cases.  </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Death is always a lagging indicator.... I mean.... what comes after death? </font></div></div>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>For John Clark, the next milestone will be when the number of dead<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>exceeds the civil war casualties, something around 850,000. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Before that there is <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the milestone of </span>291,557 <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">American </span>combat deaths from World War 2, 405,399<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> if you include non-combat deaths. The virus has already killed more than every other American war in its 250 history, and it only started in March.   </span></font><br><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Given<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>that 1.1 million was the bottom of one set of estimates, it seems<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>fairly likely.</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I hope you're wrong but I fear you're not.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>