Firstly, if you're saying most people are just fine then that's surely the wrong framing; you don't wait until most people are hurting. Secondly, why does one

Firstly, if you're saying most people are just fine then that's surely the wrong framing; you don't wait until most people are hurting. Secondly, why does one try to persuade people that the scope of hurt isn't that bad by... eyeballing a HN post for popularity? And using that to counteract a report full of collected data?