<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 5:57 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>This site very clearly and credibly refutes the notion that the covid situation is getting worse:<br> <br><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/" target="_blank">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/</a></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><font size="4">According to them yesterday August 18 In the middle of summer when virus epidemics are at their minimum 1358 Americans died of COVID-19 and 43,999 new cases were reported. Somebody, I forget his name, predicted the virus would just go away "like magic" by April when things started to get warm. It didn't happen. So I don't think the belief that the pandemic is getting worse is  all that irrational. I dread the fall and winter.<br></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></span><br></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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