On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 8:16:10 PM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > China says the spread of Corvid-19 is slowing down, but it's not clear if > their statistics can be trusted, even if they can be China has used brutal > measures to contain it, like locking down 760 million people which is more > than half the population and virtually blockading Wutan, a city larger than > any in the USA; such measures are unlikely to be repeated in the west. > Meanwhile South Korea, who's statistics don't have the same cloud of > suspicion on them that those in China have, reports the virus is spreading > faster than it is in China. Iran says 139 people have been infected > including the deputy health minister and 19 have died, and those two just > numbers don't make sense together. Iran also said 24 people were arrested > for "virus rumour-mongering", and that may give you a clue as to the > reliability of their statistics. > > On a unrelated matter (well... maybe not entirely unrelated) are there any > constitutional scholars out there? What happens if a presidential candidate > dies after being nominated but before the election, or dies after winning > the election but before being sworn in? I ask because Bernie Sanders, > Donald Trump, Mike Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden are all in > their 70's, most of them their late 70's. > > John K Clark >
*What happens if the 2020 election is cancelled because of the danger of spreading the virus? AG * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/df55bbab-3222-40e9-a7cb-4aa86fed556b%40googlegroups.com.
