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<p class="MsoNormal">In the U.S., WWII deaths were about 400k, civil war deaths about 750k and the 1918 influenza was about 675k deaths.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Current COVID-19 January 1 estimate from IHME is 378k deaths, and there’s no reason to think that’s the end yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All of a sudden people are going to shoot each other at this kind of scale and we’ll have a problem bigger than COVID-19 or that millions of acres have gone up in smoke or that the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers are coming apart at their
seams? People will do what they do. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>thompnickson2@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2020 4:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] hot time in town tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And why does this give you pleasure?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Clark University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Prof David West<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2020 4:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] hot time in town tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Epoch Times Big Data Report August 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gun sales up 133% over same three month time frame of 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">12 % of registered Democrats bought guns this period<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">19% of Republicans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">22% of those ages 18-29<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">21% Black<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">32% Union Members<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">19% Urbanites<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">19% of those earning over $200K/yr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1.8 million guns sold in July alone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">more than 423 million fire arms owned by civilians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">18 million AR-15 in circulation
<i>(personal comment — probably just as many illegal full auto kits)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">gun to people ration 5/3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That's the gasoline. RGB replacement will be the spark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">davew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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