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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> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat<br><br><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><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>BillW, here’s the right thing: if you have these conditions, don’t go anywhere near people. Don’t let anyone come within 20 ft. That 6 ft distancing business is baloney. 6 meters will get er dun however (see there, metric is your friend.) You can arrange grocery delivery. That’s what we did for my mother and my bride’s father, both of whom are older than you sir, and both in frail condition.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Don’t depend on government: they can’t do it. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…But this means that some people will be effectively prisoners in their own homes for months if not years, whereas eliminating the virus will allow things to return to normal, or almost so…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is clear to me that we cannot eliminate this virus. The efforts only were to keep the medical facilities from becoming overwhelmed until the vaccine was ready. The vaccine is ready. Then we discovered that the bottleneck for that isn’t manufacturing capacity, it is in getting enough proles to watch the recipients after they get their vaccination. Result: California where we take liability law very seriously, is dead last in the nation for percentage of its populace vaccinated, while benighted West Virginia leads the nation. Great to see West Virginia win something for a change, other than shooting competitions (we always win those but no one cares.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…That is what occurred in the Australian state where I live… Stathis Papaioannou<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Australia and New Zealand have an advantage: a single government running the entire island. In the rest of the world, borders are not entirely enforceable. In the US, we aren’t seriously trying. The US has an additional problem: there are no borders between jurisdictions on covid. State lines are not borders. But the policy is set at the state level.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>