<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 1:15 PM BillK 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">
This might help -<br>
<<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm</a>><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Thanks, and yes that certainly does help. So the theory that the pandemic has not increased the overall death rate joins the Luminiferous Aether, the Phlogiston theory of heat, Lysenko's genetics, and other non-viable ideas.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></span></div></div></div>