<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 Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:47 PM Darin Sunley 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="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>New York, Chicago, and LA are the charnel houses. The flyover states you mention aren't even rounding errors compared to them.</i></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Not now<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> not per capita<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. And right now the virus action is in states like Florida Texas and Arizona; the number of people sick with the disease has already beaten New York at its peak, true the number of deaths has not done the same yet, but death is always a lagging indicator.</span></font></div><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"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>What would they have done differently with a federal administration that was /more/ aligned to their disastrous, arguably murderous, decision making processes?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Well let's see<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> right off the top of my head <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">...</span></font></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">1) Start testing and contact tracing for the virus in January as South Korea did before it became so large as to be unstoppable. And if the American test at the time didn't work worth a damn, and it did not, then swallow your pride and use a test made in another country that did work.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">2) Encourage the use of a facemask from day one and, most certainly, do <b>NOT</b> make mask wearing part of the cultural wars! Then the Governor of Georgia wouldn't stop the Mayor of Atlanta from doing the right thing and issuing a mandate that all residents of her city wear a face mask when in public.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">3) Aggressive use of the Defense Production Act. If that was done then today more than 6 months after the pandemic started something as simple as virus masks would STILL not be in short supply and Hospital workers would STILL not be forced to reuse virus masks that were never meant to be reused.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">4) Do not encourage states to shut things down far later than scientists said they should, and don't encourage states to re-open things up again long before scientists said it was safe to do so. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">5) Don't force children to go back to school before scientists say it's safe to do so.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">6 ) Do not have the President of the United States pedal ridiculous quack cures (clorox, hydroxychloroquine, UV light) on national television.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">7) Do not go to the supreme court to try to remove health coverage for tens of millions of Americans in the middle of a pandemic.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">8) Stop lying to the American people, stop engaging in happy talk and tell the truth about what science knows about the virus.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><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"><br>
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