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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] The True Coronavirus Toll<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>… </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I'm</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> sure right wingers will say the excess deaths were caused by grief because liberals forced owners of tattoo parlors to close down their business.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deaths-us.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage">The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>J</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>ohn K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t see why they should have privileged status. Tattoo artists were never singled out. The tattoo customers can wait along with the rest of us. I can’t imagine why delaying a tattoo would cause death, any more than delaying haircuts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some of the barber shops are open, if they can move their chairs outdoors. Those chairs, capable of adjusting height at rotating about a vertical axis, are heavy. Most barbers around here are petite, so it is a job moving those things in and out every day. It occurred to me that a new business opportunity presents itself: lightweight (or wheeled) barber chairs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Everything isn’t politics. Some things are technology. This is technology and medicine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School starts today. Some students are returning to campus. Good luck to us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>