<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 Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:03 AM spike jones 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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If the mortality rate for covid really is about half apercent, then covid isn't all that different from other flu epidemics.  Then<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>the whole shutdown notion was a huge epic failure, </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Perhaps I misunderstood but I thought our new mystery man moderator ordered <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">us not to make political or controversial statements.</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><div><br></div></div></div>