<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 Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:21 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrot</span><span class="gmail_default">e</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’</div><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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_9085115469887694160WordSection1"><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gates-on-covid-most-us-tests-are-completely-garbage/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13.5pt">Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’</a></blockquote></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>I came to similar conclusions in April, </i></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Spike, I wish you'd read the entire interview, and not just the headline, and tell me if you agree with Bill Gates or not.  I certainly do! Gate<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s</span> is not saying all Colvin 19 tests are garbage, just those conducted by the USA, because regardless of how accurate the test may be if it takes 10 days to two weeks to get the results, and not 15 minutes as in most other parts of the world, then the tests are, although perhaps of some historical value, completely useless as a tool for slowing the spread of the virus.</font><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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_9085115469887694160WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Conclusion: the number that counts is the fatalities per capita.</i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">But you won't even accept that evidence <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that this pandemic is serious business, </span>you'll just say the excess deaths were caused <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">not by the virus but </span>by people dying from a broken heart because liberals force<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">d</span> them to shut down their businesses<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. It seems there are no logical contortions some people will not undergo if that's what it takes to avoid changing their worldview in any way.</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></div>