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On 20/09/2020 00:37, Dyklan Distasio wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:mailman.47.1600558632.3037.extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">
<div dir="ltr">Take a look at France, Spain, or most of Europe as
well. I'm curious what John has to say about the situation. </div>
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What's important is not the number of people being infected
('cases'), but the number of people dying. More infections are a
good thing, if they don't kill people.<br>
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So where are the mortality figures? They are what's important, and
what should be informing lockdown policies.<br>
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Infection numbers are meaningless without mortality numbers, and we
won't be able to tell if the virus is evolving to be less lethal (or
I should say <i>how fast</i> it's evolving to be non-lethal, as
it's inevitable that it will).<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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