<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Deaths come 3-4 weeks following surges. Your celebration is premature I’m afraid. Even in Florida. I hope you prove right in due time though. </div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 22, 2022, at 2:47 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">… for me to conclude that this nightmare is over.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The fatality numbers rose some in Florida’s omicron surge of December, but nothing like any of the three preceding waves.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is enough data and enough time now for us to conclude based on the Florida numbers that omicron doesn’t slay and that it is likely to confer some immunity from Alpha and Delta.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If that still-tentative second contention is true, this two-year nightmare is over.<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><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="712" height="446" style="width:7.4166in;height:4.6458in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D80F84.D8B0BA30"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="703" height="446" style="width:7.3229in;height:4.6458in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D80F84.D8B0BA30"><o:p></o:p></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>