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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=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br>...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>...I thought of another interesting aspect of the whole notion. We know that in covid there is a spectrum of belief about its danger. Perhaps we could construct a bell-shaped curve if we wish to collapse that fear factor into a single axis. ...spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Do indulge me in pushing this notion to absurdity and beyond please.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Imagine doing that fear of covid and fear of vax graph into bell curves, and put both on a 2D grid as shown with the Vax fear on the vertical and the covid fear on the horizontal. I have shown marks there representing standard deviations, so that everyone in the sanity zone would be somewhere on that graph.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=563 height=459 style='width:5.8645in;height:4.7812in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D7BA0E.20BC0360"><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>If one is undecided whether the vaccine or covid is a higher risk, one is on the dashed line. Below the dashed line, one takes the vaccine voluntarily, above the dashed line, one would refuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Regarding the notation, quadrants 1 and 3 are divided into regions 1, 2, 3 and 4. I am in quadrant 3 region 3: I consider my covid risk low but the vaccine risk lower, so… region 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>In quadrant 4 are the stubborn vaccine refusers, the kind of people who will buy (or make) phony covid proof or perhaps would buy the religious exemption cards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>That data I keep going on about are those deep in the bottom right of this graph, way over in quadrant 2. They would be the yahoos sneaking around collecting vaccines at every opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>