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Originally Posted by DaFace
I recently read a book called Factfulness that tries to point out all of the weird (wrong) perceptions we have about how awful the world is. One of the concepts the author puts out there is that we should always be skeptical of "lonely numbers" - numbers that sound really bad, but we don't have any context for.
This is definitely a time for that. While 2,814 deaths from Coronavirus sounds bad, the flu kills between 291,000 and 646,000 each year. |
Well, if you were trying to convince me to murder my neighbors and raid their medicine chests for Tamiflu and tussin, you've succeeded.