<div dir="auto"><div>Dave</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe I lack adequate knowledge of the variety of care centers but the ones I know charge something like $200,000 admission and $6000 per month. Maybe you mean "somewhat poor OR already warehoused..."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 4, 2020, 5:31 AM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div style="font-family:Arial">The lesson might be if you are willing to lose the old people who are somewhat poor and already warehoused in overcrowded care facilities you don't have to lock down.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div>On Sun, May 3, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="m_-3419892107794976427qt"><div dir="auto"><div>Sounds like the lesson is that if you're willing to lose old people you don't have to lock down. As an old person I have my doubts about that approach. In the last three days one of my highschool classmates died of covid related causes and a first cousin died of a heart attack with no known covid involvement.<br></div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div>---<br></div><div>Frank C. Wimberly<br></div><div>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br></div><div>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br></div><div><br></div><div>505 670-9918<br></div><div>Santa Fe, NM<br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 3, 2020, 10:55 AM Merle Lefkoff <<a href="mailto:merlelefkoff@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">merlelefkoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nick, the only mainstream news program I watch is Fareed Zakaria on Sunday morning. Below is part of this morning's report. Not surprisingly (for those of us who have had the privilege recently of spending time in Sweden), the answer to how it's working, is just about like the countries that are locked down, with one exception. More deaths (mostly among the elderly who primarily live together in retirement).<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(41,41,41)"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">As world governments employ different policies to fight Covid-19, Sweden’s relaxed approach stands out: Eschewing lockdowns, the country has left its schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants open throughout the spread of the pandemic</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(41,41,41)"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">. Fareed interviews the man behind that strategy, </span></span></span><b style="line-height:inherit;color:rgb(41,41,41);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Anders Tegnell</b><span style="color:rgb(41,41,41)"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">, the Swedish government’s top epidemiologist, about how it’s working and whether his country can offer any lessons to the rest of the world.</span></span></span><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p>Colleagues, <u></u><u></u><br></p><p><u></u> <u></u><br></p><p>I have asked this question before and nobody has responded (for clear and good reasons, no doubt) but I thought I would ask it again. What exactly is this economy we are bent on reviving? What exactly is the difference in human activity between our present state and a revived economy. We can go to bars and concerts and football games? Is that the economy we are reviving? It seems to me that the difference between a “healty” economy and our present status consists possibly in nothing more than a lot of people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t really need to do? <u></u><u></u><br></p><p><u></u> <u></u><br></p><p>You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above two hundred. Infant mortality, etc., was appalling. Carnage. In the same space, a competent lab breeding organization could have kept a population of tens of thousands. <u></u><u></u><br></p><p><u></u> <u></u><br></p><p>Don’t yell at me. 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