[ExI] Urban density and coronavirus

[SR Ballard]

That’s true. Just like big venues that are opening up again, movie theatres, political rallies, shopping centers. Just bad timing all around. 

SR

> On Jun 21, 2020, at 5:12 PM, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 06:45, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 3:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> > Hi Dan, this article is focused on covid, but there is are other (and perhaps more immediate) risks in the city, such as widespread lawlessness. What happens if a chain-reaction looting of the food retailers takes place in other big cities as it has in parts of Chicago? 
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>> COVID-19 has, just since March, killed 122,211 Americans, that's more than twice as many as died in the entire Vietnam war. As far as I know protesters, and even looters and rioters, have not killed or even seriously injured one single person, so as "widespread lawlessness" goes that's pretty tame.
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> Not directly, but they might be responsible for the deaths of thousands through increasing spread of the virus.
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