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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s not to the point of killing us all off, just those that threaten to draw from Social Security. (A Plandemic instigated by Rand Paul!)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finding more paths in is a sound fitness function.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Prof David West <profwest@fastmail.fm><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 12:57 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"friam@redfish.com" <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] Covid and Politics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Does not Ewald suggest that a virus might evolve to be more benign vis-a-vis its hosts so as to maximize the number of potential hosts, i.e. avoid killing them off and reducing their will and
actions in resistance?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Probably totally misread him as that is not at all my field of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 26, 2020, at 1:49 PM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="qt-msonormal1">It gets even MORE interesting if we consider the variable environment to which the virus is optimizing. According to
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=evolution+of+infectious+disease+by+paul+ewald&i=stripbooks&crid=2M9WVN279ILHB&sprefix=Paul+Ewald+evolu%2Cstripbooks%2C271&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_16">
Ewald’s theory</a>, the virulence of the virus evolves in relation to its Ro, so a more transmissible virus will become more virulent, etc and vv.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="qt-msonormal1">Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="qt-msonormal1">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="qt-msonormal1">Clark University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="qt-msonormal1"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="qt-msonormal1"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:36 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Covid and Politics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="qt-msonormal1"><span class="size"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dave writes:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="qt-msonormal1"><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">< 3.5 million deaths is perfectly acceptable. Mostly because that total will accumulate at a rate of 150-170,000 per year which puts COVID in the lower half of the top
five causes of death in the US. ></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="qt-msonormal1"><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It gets more interesting if SARS-Cov2 is optimizing itself. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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