<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Catastrophe? I can imagine that quite a few of the nursing home people were glad to have a way off the planet. A silver lining for the silver-headed. I had an aunt who lived to be 96 and who was blind for the last 20 years. She kept wondering why she couldn't die. She would have welcomed a virus like this one. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:22 AM 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_6502257482932581582WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is the CDC data for all US deaths from all causes.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The most recent bar is for the week ending 29 August. They give 10 days before they put the bar on there.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That last week of August is lowest number of deaths in any week in the last 3.7 years. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="300" height="370" style="width: 3.125in; height: 3.8541in;" id="gmail-m_6502257482932581582Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1748d5d7ecd5b006a1"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That big Sturgis rally apparently lowered it, but I wouldn’ta thought it would lower it this much: only one part in 700 can be explained that way.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">European nations should have something analogous to this, ja? What is happening over there? We know of the nursing home catastrophe: perhaps covid slew the oldest and sickest, and now there are fewer left alive in those categories. Or… normal flu deaths are down because of extra precautions? Ideas?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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