> Something like 5 million people die every year, should we be in permanent mourning? That gives truth to Benjamin Disraeli's (attributed) "Lies, damn lies,

> Something like 5 million people die every year, should we be in permanent mourning? That gives truth to Benjamin Disraeli's (attributed) "Lies, damn lies, and statistics". Very misleading. It was the concentrated effects. When bottled oxygen ran out in India. When you could not get into a hospital in many American cities (my American geography is hazy - South Los Angeles hospital, I think, was crippled for weeks) Running out of morgue space in New York city - mass graves in central park. It was really very scary, and I am glad I was not in any of those places badly hit.