The way I approach big numbers is to use it in a representative Major League Baseball stadium with 40,000 people, because even though it's hard to grok I at lea

The way I approach big numbers is to use it in a representative Major League Baseball stadium with 40,000 people, because even though it's hard to grok I at least a have a felt sense of what that is like. 1M COVID deaths, then, becomes 25 entire MLB stadiums (there are only 30 of them by the way) getting vaporized. I also use this for things like chances: a 1-in-400 would be the equivalent of 100 tickets in the stadium being selected for something, so I ask myself, "if I were at a game how excited or nervous would I be if they surprise-announced this?"