<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There were way too many bikers to fit into the bars there, so most of the time they spent outside. Ditto for filling motels. Maybe they used tents? So I agree that being outside may be part of it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As for a test, let's take another group that is spending their time outside: football players. I do not know what they are doing inside - wearing masks probably, unlike the average students who are getting the virus big time. So if you can find a way to track the virus in that population, it might confirm your suspicions about the bikers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:29 PM spike jones 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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_3829273630420676985WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:30 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_3829273630420676985gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>> </span></span> <i>I agree that sunlight played in a role in protecting many of the bikers… Stuart </i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>…Trump … </span><span class="gmail-m_3829273630420676985gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_3829273630420676985gmaildefault"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_3829273630420676985gmaildefault"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_3829273630420676985gmaildefault">Politics, disregard all. And that… is why we have a separate exile list.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">After all this time, we finally got a dataset with no political influence anywhere to be found. We finally have an opportunity to study an actual valuable dataset, untouched by the corrupting influence of politics. Do let us not struggle to somehow inject that corrupting influence.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">John what do you think somehow protected those bikers? We need our big thinkers on this question. All of our big thinkers, this is a huge signal here, enormous. It is all science. It is a big dataset. It is being carefully controlled and reported. We have one biker covid death so far in the entire month, when we should have seen about one per day since about the ides of August.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Stuart, if it really is as simple as sunlight on the skin, is not this a remarkable and in a way simultaneously alarming and reassuring signal? Sunshine is free. There is no risk.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Big thinkers, think big please. If that’s it, what do we do next? If we need another test, what test? How?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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