What annoys me is there's no frame of reference for what the figures mean. There's the bubonic plague as a reference, but no way of knowing if Covid will match

What annoys me is there's no frame of reference for what the figures mean. There's the bubonic plague as a reference, but no way of knowing if Covid will match the figures gathered in the black death[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death