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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I hope you slept well despite the Martian sky. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yesterday's news had sound-bytes of the Donald himself saying that the virus was deadly, but he didn't want to create a panic.</div> <div><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-admits-downplaying-virus-but-told-woodward-it-was-deadly/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-admits-downplaying-virus-but-told-woodward-it-was-deadly/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Maybe my acquaintance will give it a break.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 3:02:22 AM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I'm seeking some advise on a discussion outside of CABAL.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Someone wrote to me that COVID-19 is much over hyped.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>It's far too late at night for me to give a serious, considered response</div><div><br></div>to this, so please take cum grano salis. That precautionary statement<br clear="none">having been made: How many deaths are required before taking this<br clear="none">seriously?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">COVID-19 is the second biggest killer in the USA right now, just behind<br clear="none">heart disease. That’s about to change, COVID-19, within about a month,<br clear="none">becoming our number one killer. As I write this, there are 6,460,250<br clear="none">known cases of COVID-19 in the US, and it has caused, to date, 193,250<br clear="none">American deaths. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and<br clear="none">Evaluation (IHME), an _additional_ 225,000 Americans will die due to<br clear="none">COVID by early December. And that's just getting warmed up:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It's likely that, following Labour Day weekend and many places<br clear="none">insisting on having in-person school instruction, there's soon to be an<br clear="none">even bigger wave of infections.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So: Over-hyped compared to what, I wonder? The Cretaceous extinction?<div class="ydp6e158603yqt7257774794" id="ydp6e158603yqtfd26603"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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