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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p>Hi, Everybody<o:p></o:p></p><p>This article greatly puzzled me because it seemed to eviscerate it self in the last few paragraphs. <o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p>My main concern here is the degree to which I am being deluded by my addiction to the Rachel Maddow Show. She is in HairOnFire mode about an impending epidemic in the plains states. She is particularly caustic about the bad judgement of plains states governors. But if the times charts are right, one can see (sort of) why those governors are not as alarmed as we smarty-pantses think they ought to be. There aren’t that many people dying full stop, even tho people ARE dying of covid. (Not to mention that most of the people who are dying of covid are poorish people working in meet packing plants.) What is this New Abnormal we seem to find ourselves in?<o:p></o:p></p><p>N<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>