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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" 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><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>Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat<br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Obligated or not, compliance is always another matter. I presume you have speed limits posted in your area. What’s the compliance rate with these? Can one presume that merely because the speed limit posted is X that every vehicle or enough vehicles never exceed X? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja of course. It is improper to compare covid-related policy to speed limits however, for speed limits are law, passed by legislatures. As far as I know, no state legislatures anywhere passed covid law. They handed that back to the governor, who does not have the authority to make law.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>>…New Jersey and New York both did that and are among the hardest-hit jurisdictions in the world.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…They also have very high population densities for the US, no?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards, Dan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, which is what leads me to think the apparent correlation is really two effects of the same cause.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a good point for New York, for that state is a huge metropolis with the rest of it generally rural. Check Google maps street view and see it. Upstate New York is country roads with not much on them. OK, suppose a governor wants to make rules that will work for both the city and the rest of the state. How? Suggestions: don’t send known-infected patients into nursing homes, and don’t intentionally distort fatality statistics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>