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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] owwwww, dang<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 11:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal> <span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Yes, we very clearly haven't "<i>rounded the corner</i>", …</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></i></span><i>Because I don’t view a US president as a doctor or in control of world governments. </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…I don't care if he's just in charge of the local dog pound, why would you consistently and vigorously defend somebody …</span> <span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John K Clark</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I didn’t defend anyone John. Saying that politicians are not in charge of viruses isn’t a defense of any POTUS. Reason: POTUS isn’t in charge of viruses. Governors to some extent can influence that, but a POTUS has little power to do much. No politician anywhere was able to stop this. The next POTUS won’t be able to stop it either. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I see some US governors who did the wrong thing: the initial lockdowns in New York appear to have made the problem worse. New York has one of worst covid records of any jurisdiction in the world. The only thing I can say for that governor (I don’t know who it is) is that we didn’t know. Shutting down the subway wasn’t really an option, because people live in those train cars and people still need to get to essential jobs somehow. So they had to ride the train with those who never leave the train.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Florida governor appears to have done the right thing, eventually. But the Florida flu season hasn’t arrived yet either. It is still warm and nice in the Sunshine State from what I hear. We still don’t really know on ending Florida’s shutdown in September. My intuition tells me that eventually covid will get loose the public schools. Hoping for the best on that, fearing the worst. John perhaps you can tell us: as I understand it, Florida counties still have the option to mandate schools stay closed, and indoor-dining. Is that right? Those tightly-packed counties down south there would be well-advised perhaps to pay the price and stay locked? The rural counties don’t need to lock down.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t worry about what a federal level politician says if I already figured out who I voted for. John have you figured out who you are voting for? If so, why are you still campaigning here? Campaign over where people care about US politics, or some do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s an interesting and scary signal. A theory I heard yesterday is that a new strain of covid may have mutated in Spain. The new strain might be less lethal, but we don’t really know that yet. The new strain might be even more contagious than the previous one, but that isn’t really known either.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A plausible theory suggests that the 1918 Spanish flu originated in China and found its way to Spain where it got its name. We know how the second wave of that went, owwww.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=719 height=451 style='width:7.4895in;height:4.6979in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6AF61.9466C560"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One would think the king of Spain would just pass a law, but that didn’t work. 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