<div dir="ltr">Yes I know the REAL meaning of decimate.<div>And yes Im guilty of using it to mean "drastic" and probably shouldnt.</div><div>Criticism accepted.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the other stuff, my interest in tracking numbers waned mid day after the results of one of my number crunching run.</div><div>Even if I took the undercount hook line and sinker, the numbers I got were just too depressing.</div><div><br></div><div>It WAS fun extrapolating curves...</div><div><br></div><div>I initially wrote off the 3rd world, hoping that western US would somehow muddle through.</div><div>Last 24 hrs, Im giving up on the US muddling through.</div><div><br></div><div>Im not going to do actual cash, but Ill go on record as saying 12 more weeks for California.</div><div>If Im still around in 12 weeks, I will either blush purple for missing the number, or grin for getting close.</div><div><br></div><div>I was optimistic that perhaps the experts were being overly pessimistic.</div><div>My own numbers, eventually convinced me that even the experts numbers are probably </div><div>optimistic.</div><div><br></div><div>Im really curious about Arizona, however.</div><div>Lots of possibilities for how it will run.</div><div><br></div><div>I just got off the phone with an offshore recruiter who actually had a few brain cells.</div><div>The hand washing and the "face no touchie" thing are not getting out to the public.</div><div>All they know is that their country is going on lockdown and many people are going to die.</div><div>Its not quite panic...yet.</div><div><br></div><div>And I thought WE bungled it...</div><div><br></div><div>I passed along the hand and face thing, and left it at that.</div><div>There was no point in saying anything else.</div><div><br></div><div>Sir Winston Churchil (I believe) observed</div><div>"After exhausting all other possibilities, the Americans will eventually do the right thing"</div><div>I think we are going to drop the ball even on this.</div><div><br></div><div>Im curious about the following:</div><div><br></div><div>If the US pretty much recovers (health & finance) by mid autumn, we get 4 more years</div><div>of the orange cretin.</div><div><br></div><div>As horrible as it seems, Im praying the economy remains in the toilet until late Nov.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a faint possibility that the Trumpfolk will get so screwed that they finally get on the healthcare bandwagon.</div><div><br></div><div>There is the faint possibility that the coming cull of the homeless population may prompt some sanity in housing reform.</div><div><br></div><div>The 3rd world will be dramatically reduced in population and that will change world politics</div><div>dramatically.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:26 AM <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.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><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">While we are correcting math misconceptions, the word "decimate" has been widely used in recent years and the original meaning greatly distorted. <span>Decimate has the same root word as "decimal". </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Decimation was a draconian punishment of a unit in the Roman army. 1 out of 10 solders in the unit was executed. Details at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)</a></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">In any event Covid19 will kill a lot of people, but no way of knowing if it will be 1 in 10 or some other fraction.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 4:26:46 PM PDT, Texx <<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-4615184044309180651ydpc6028e0fyiv3965179958"><div><div dir="ltr">> Regarding the math thing, there are parts old the world that we are looking at a geometric rise fast that will decimate some portions of the world.<div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>