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<div><p class="MsoNormal">ExI Mod wrote:<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">">…Everyone,
please calm down! The virus is a global problem. All national leaders
are in a dilemma; they must balance protecting the population while
attempting to avoid shutting down business and causing a depression.
Even XI. The way the Chinese system works means that the Chinese
authorities had probably been covering the problem up from a much lower
level than Xi. By the time the problem came to his attention he was
faced with a damage limitation exercise".</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Do you know that for a fact? Will we ever actually know? And even if what you say about Xi is true, it still does not absolve China/CCP of having had an inefficient/corrupt system that has resulted in over a million human beings dying (with many more to die), as well as lots of people experiencing unemployment, evictions and homelessness. I have heard the CCP now finally has special private channels of communication for doctors and scientists to report scary bad news to government leaders, but that does not change the past. </font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> John<br></p></div>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 12:50 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 style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5804215246001963586WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">ExiMod<b> </b><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] owwwww, dang<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Everyone, please calm down! The virus is a global problem. All national leaders are in a dilemma; they must balance protecting the population while attempting to avoid shutting down business and causing a depression. Even XI. The way the Chinese system works means that the Chinese authorities had probably been covering the problem up from a much lower level than Xi. By the time the problem came to his attention he was faced with a damage limitation exercise.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…So stop the USA politics now.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…ExiMod<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My apologies ExiMod.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We have data from US states which experimented with lockdowns. California for instance switched off ours temporarily in July, then switched it back on before we really had enough time to see if it worked. Florida switched off their shutdown a little over a month ago.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I propose using that data to the hilt, not to promote any political party or candidate or really even mention that for it is irrelevant as far as I can tell. The data, what was done by what level of government, city, county, state, or nation, I would say is highly relevant and not political: I don’t care what party these governors belong to. I don’t even know. I assume it is one of our legacy parties (they all seem to be one of those two.) <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My apology is for blaming Xi, for I don’t really know if he could have stopped the virus from escaping. Good chance it already had escaped before anyone even knew it was there. I see no reason for invoking any politician or political system, but I do see reason for working this data every which way we can. I acknowledge that I am quick to blame commies at every opportunity: I don’t cotton to them. They appear to have way more authority than I am ever comfortable seeing humans hold.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Back to the data, my friends! Let’s see if we can collectively extract a signal from this chaotic noise.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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