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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Sweden<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:25 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>South Korea is a counterexample which proves your thesis is wrong</span><span class=gmail-m-1687114548655845407gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>.</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></i></span><i>Asian people may have a higher natural resistance, </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Then why did the pandemic grow so rapidly </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>in China</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> in the very earliest days before </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>the </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>government </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>there </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>got </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>its act</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> together</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our data from China is unreliable. Theirs is a government which controls data and information flow. Citizens there were threatened for posting to the internet. We still don’t know how many covid cases they had in China.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That being said, if more government is the answer to epidemics, this is bad news indeed for the USA and the west in general, for we have less government here than either China or South Korea. As the impact of the quarantine filters up (in the form of lower tax revenue) the west in general and the USA will have still less government than we have now. If government is the answer to epidemics, your best bet for avoiding the virus is to flee to North Korea.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll taaaaaake… Covid for 500 please Alex.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>