Are you claiming that Covid-19 is the worst global crisis since WWII? I find that claim to be unsupportable. I will of course agree that this pandemic is effecting nearly the entire globe, but the worldwide death figure for Covid-19 is between 285K and 290K. For reference (and I acknowledge it did not effect the global population) the Khmer Rouge was responsible for somewhere between 1.5 and 2 Million deaths between 1976 and 1979. Covid-19 is a viable pandemic with far reaching effects, but to compare it to some of the atrocities seen on this planet post-1945 is a bit premature and alarmist.
Take the world population of 7.8 billion. Assume 80% get sick and 1% die and 2% suffer ruined health. You have 62.4 million deaths and 125 million people with bad health.
Thing that is most disturbing here is peoples desire for normalcy overrides their ability to do simple arithmetic.
I was not disagreeing with the premise that the impact of Covid-19 could be significant. I would disagree in plotting a novel virus’s rate of death would remain completely static from first appearance for a period of four years, but it could. I was more taking issue with calling the current state of the world regarding the pandemic they worst global catastrophe since WWII. I felt like parent was trivializing multiple significantly horrible events and then using it to make a point about how people are not acting in a manner they view as appropriate.
