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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>Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] new covid case rates<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 9:52 PM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>When will President Biden create a federal mandate to have one set of strict rules for the entire nation? This long-standing piecemeal approach to containing the virus in America is ridiculous!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>### There is no reason to expect that an administration figureheaded by a demented old man would pick the best rules for disease prevention, in fact, it is very unlikely that they would be anywhere close to the optimum rules. Having the same "strict" rules for the entire nation would only lock in bad policies, with no room for experimentation and it would bring down successful states (e.g. Florida) to the level of basket cases. Rafal <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--------------------------<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>This is an understatement. If the smartest person on the planet (in the field of immunology and virology) were to be given absolute authority to create law (not guidelines, law) for the entire USA, that person would immediately recognize that this cannot be done. There is no single rule or law that comes close to optimizing strategy for some areas were hammered and others were nearly untouched. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Other states cannot be dragged down to the level of the states which didn’t have enough sense to recognize that sending infected patients into nursing homes would kill people. New York (specifically) made policies that killed thousands. Then they tried to cover it up, which killed perhaps thousands more.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fortunately, in the USA, we are protected from the failure mode of governmental incompetence (and possibly malice) by intentionally and strictly limiting the power of government at all levels.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>