<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 12:53 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <</span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <br><u></u></p></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><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"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>If this was January or even February I'd have some suggestions on how schools might stay open and people not die</span><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> but </span><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">this is August and in the US t</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">he virus is so out of contr</span><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ol</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> none of those ideas would work</span><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> anymore. Most European and Asian countries can safely reopen their schools in the fall, but I'm sorry to say the US can not.<br></span></span></blockquote></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></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"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">John K Clark</span></blockquote></div></blockquote><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"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>What should be the cutoff between can and cannot? </i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I'm not sure what the exact cut off number is, but whatever that point is we certainly passed it by a week in early July when just Florida and Texas reported 3 times more new COVID-19 cases than all 27 countries of the European Union combined. The European numbers would look even better if it wasn't for Sweden<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">;</span> the former great example of how to handle a pandemic without damaging an economy has turned into the new Sick Man of Europe.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>