<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 Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 4:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"> <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_8903427075836232770WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>…Trump … </span><span class="gmail-m_8903427075836232770gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><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_8903427075836232770WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_8903427075836232770gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_8903427075836232770gmaildefault"><u></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_8903427075836232770gmaildefault"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Politics, disregard all. </i></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I don't think anyone on this list needs your help to figure out what to disregard. And how the hell was that political?! <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>A scientific hypothesis has been proposed, namely that sunlight makes large gatherings of people safe from COVID-19 even if they're not wearing facemasks, and I mentioned that there is already a control experiment in progress that can test that hypothesis. Is the very word "Trump" now forbidden from being uttered on the Extropian list regardless of context?</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><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>John what do you think somehow protected those bikers?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I don't know, and nobody will ever know if we don't do experiments <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">t</span>o find out<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. For ethical reasons it's often difficult to perform rigorous scientific tests (which need control experiments) with deadly viruses, but in this case Trump has already provided us with one.</span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Let me ask <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a</span> question of my own.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Family physicians are infected with COVID-19 more than the general population, but frontline physicians in hospital settings where facemasks are mandatory deal with patients sick with COVID-19 constantly, and yet they </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">actually have a lower rate of infection than the general population. What do you think protected those physicians<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> even in that dangerous situation</span>?<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2020/july/among-healthcare-workers-family-primary-care-doctors-most-at-risk-of-dying-from-covid19">Workers in hospital settings may be better protected from COVID-19 than the general population</a><br><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></span></div>
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