<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Rather usual for a bad virus. 1958-1959 pandemic killed as many adjust for population and as quickly. Remember this is < 0.05% of population. Also note CFR is dropping toward 3% as we now test a lot more asymptomatic people. IFR depends on the estimate of infections vs known cases ratio. Whatever that is divide the CFR by it. Last CDC estimate I saw a was down to 0.26% IFR. Yes the virus is scary but not exactly something I would consider worth as much hysteria and draconian measures (lockdowns) as were deployed. <div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 19, 2020, at 3:45 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class="">58,220 Americans died in the entire Vietnam War of all causes not just from combat, and as of right now August 19 at 09:35 GMT 175,087 Ameracans have died of COVID-19, just over 3 times as many<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span> And this all happened since February.</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" class="">John K Clark</font></div><br class=""></div></div>
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