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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…At some point the epidemiologists must explain a stunning observation: the bikers keep not dying…Epidemiologists have a lotta splainin to do…spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please, my sincere apologies for going on about this. In the runup, for weeks, or months really, we heard so much about how this would be a catastrophe and a super-spreader and all that. But it wasn’t, and now it feels like a big shrug: OK that didn’t show what we expected, so… never mind, onto something else.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well wait a minute. We have economists and journalists filling the vacuum, writing panic-porn for the masses claiming that it did show what they predicted, while the people who are qualified to get to the answers on this slink away quietly. Why is it that way down here in Squaresville, L7 non-hipster daddy-o nanoscopic spike seems to be asking: Why do the bikers keep not dying? Why am I writing on and on, annoying my own friends to no end with my obsession, but the professional community are stone cold silent on what looks like a huge obvious signal, one that has enormous significance and stunning implications?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>