<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><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"><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"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><i>If we bring in 2019, Fox had about 2.5 million viewers, CNN 1.1 million</i> <u style="">[</u>...<u style="">]</u></span></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Spike, are you serious?<span> Do you really believe that TV ratings are the best way to judge Covid death rates?! </span> </span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It wasn’t my theory.  I was quoting a guy named John K Clark, </font></i></span></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't remember saying that the best way to judge Covid death rates is by looking at ratings of TV shows.  Did you look at my thread "<i>Political ideology, vaccine hesitancy, and death</i>"? I think Claude found a way of comparing Democratic and Republican death rates during the pandemic, <u>both before and after the vaccine became available</u>, that was just a teeny tiny bit better than TV ratings.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></b></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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