When people talk about "how bad covid is" I really wish everybody could look at this graph for context.
It's the "Global Daily Covid Deaths" curve.
You might notice that at the beginning of the Pandemic of the Century we were having roughly 7000 deaths per day.
Out of 7.8 billion people on the Planet.
And then THE WORLD WAS ON FIRE. Right?
And at the worst of it things were DOUBLE as bad as at the start!
It got up to 14,000 covid (or covid-related!) deaths per day.
14,000 died one day .. across all the countries on the Planet who were simultaneously suffering from collapsing hospitals in a deadly pandemic.
The vast majority, as always, old and frail people.
And now it has gradually "de-surged" it's way down again via smaller "echoes" as is typical.
It's back to around 7000. Back to where it was at the beginning. When things were just a few hotspots.
So .. from 7000 to 14,000 back down to 7000.
Out of 7.8 billion people on the planet.
That's the "Story of the Most Deadly Pandemic of the Century".
When people talk about "how bad covid is" I really wish everybody could look at this graph for context.
It's the "Global Daily Covid Deaths" curve.
You might notice that at the beginning of the Pandemic of the Century we were having roughly 7000 deaths per day.
Out of 7.8 billion people on the Planet.
And then THE WORLD WAS ON FIRE. Right?
And at the worst of it things were DOUBLE as bad as at the start!
It got up to 14,000 covid (or covid-related!) deaths per day.
14,000 died one day .. across all the countries on the Planet who were simultaneously suffering from collapsing hospitals in a deadly pandemic.
And now it has gradually "de-surged" it's way down again via smaller "echoes" as is typical.
It's back to around 7000. Back to where it was at the beginning. When things were just a few hotspots.
So .. from 7000 to 14,000 back down to 7000.
Out of 7.8 billion people on the planet.
That's the "Story of the Most Deadly Pandemic of the Century".