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Originally Posted by pocket_zeros
It's only a big number when when you find yourself or your family included in it. Like Harry Truman said, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours.
it's a big number when everyone is included.
when every, or most people know a normal age and health person who died of it.
know in the Dunbar number sense.
and that's the threshold to start being scared but it can be a lot worse than that, like it was many many times in Europe with plagues.
2020 wasn't even the year with the highest lethality (gross, age adjusted, all causes) in the last 40 years ffs