<div dir="ltr">Where are we at in /excess/ deaths vs. Vietnam? That seems like a better comparison. Not every COVID death is an excess death - indeed, probably most aren't. But every Vietnam death was an excess death.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:23 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<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 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 Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:13 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But now I see why John, who is American, is always reporting the ratio of covid deaths over Vietnam war deaths: it makes the USA look great. It is a form of flag waving. John does love his government after all. Who knew?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Yes <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">who knew, who knew </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">175,302 deaths could be so funny, a real knee slapper. In case you're wondering why that number is different it's because 215 more Americans died of COVID-19 since I wrote that Email 3 1/2 hours ago.</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>
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