<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small">It seems like masks and shutdowns should be an effective countermeasure, but we really haven’t seen good evidence that they are.<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></p><font color="#888888" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">spike <font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>Well, what DO we have evidence of? Anything at all? Or do we have conflicting evidence? Surely lots of people are gathering data other than on cases and deaths. bill w</b></font></p></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:18 PM 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 lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-7367084377714209853WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>>…We have some notion that we can stay shut down until it is safe to re-open, but we really can’t. That isn’t right. Had we known we would still be in this situation a year ago, most governors would not have opted to shut down at all. At some point, the cost exceeds the value. We are way past the breakeven point and are deep into net loss.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…What about the economic cost of a deadly disease?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Stathis Papaioannou<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s high. What we still don’t have is good evidence that shutdowns are effective in stopping it or slowing it. It seems like masks and shutdowns should be an effective countermeasure, but we really haven’t seen good evidence that they are.<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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