<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Perhaps the Sturgis bikers were unusual as a sample. Significantly fewer than average rates of infection in those bikers. What do you know about bikers in general? Any other samples of bikers available? And I'll bet those college students were mostly inside when they contracted the virus - lined up to get cards for classes - that sort of thing, if they still do that - not likely.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">The only thing that keeps me from believing that about the bikers is the huge sample. Not very likely that it is skewed in some way. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Good luck. Just stay out of your wife's tranquilizers. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 2:37 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_-1989285625111564713WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 25, 2020 11:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] cog bias again<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Doctor, do I need to check in at the asylum? Or am I safe to leave out on the street? Are there medications for LIGO/Sturgis Syndrome?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Prepare a very large pot of chicken broth, good for what ails you, ya know, and let it cool down some, then stick your head in it repeatedly until all dissonance is gone, approximately three years</span><span style="font-size:16pt">…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">Tried that, didn’t work. I did make quite a mess and looked silly, so I gave up that therapy.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </span><span style="font-size:16pt">>…<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Does anyone know if viruses are susceptible to sunlight? UV gets through clouds, as we know. Perhaps it kills enough of the virus so that if it is inhaled it's not strong enough to battle with the immune system</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">I am reaching for all kinds of explanations like that: the virus was weakened by UV, inhaled, created a kind of partial vaccine-effect where proles’ immune systems were alerted but the virus didn’t arrive full strength as it would in an indoor infection. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">>…<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Just how much testing of the Sturgis people was done?</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">We don’t really know which is part of what makes this a crazy-difficult puzzle.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">>…<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">If my idea is right, then we ought to find a lot of cases of infection but few people with symptoms.</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">Ja, very plausible. The extra sunlight somehow temporarily boosted immune systems, causing them to catch but be asymptomatic.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">The LIGO case is too far out for me. bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">No way Jose! You are closer to the actual instrument than most of us here: three hour ride down Interstate 55 to Livingston Louisiana. I would go there just hoping to watch it vibrate, even knowing that I couldn’t see it vibrate. I would go there just to walk on sacred holy ground. This place is the scientists’ version of the invisible guy in Hawaii: we built these big expensive things to look at some mysterious invisible waves from ancient times, we insist they are real and they compel us to do silly things like drive three hours to look at an enormous pipe.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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