The Numbers Are Climbing.

The relativity of numbers.

If there were an unfortunate and awful bus crash, one that would have killed sixty or more people, we would all be in tears and some form of national acknowledgement or mourning would be called.

Today the new corona numbers were published. New cases and death over the last 24 hours and they were a  shocker. In the last twenty four hours 65 people died of or with covid. How terrible and how sad. Each one of those had family and friends and more importantly, a life to live. That is what corona does.

We have gotten so used to seeing that infamous ticker tape spewing out various numbers that we forget to equate them to reality, to real people. Even worse, when the death number follows the newly infected corona cases, those which are at the moment over ten thousand, which makes the death numbers seem small in comparison. Not nice being conditioned like this.

Today I heard the Minister of Burgenland comment on a corona situation that seems to have gotten out of hand. No other way to put it. Politicians at the highest level seem to be fighting among themselves at the cost of the nation and he called them out on it, telling them to stop infighting and start behaving like the leaders they were elected to be. 

What impressed me the most is that he repeatedly made the point that all of us need to do the right thing, even if it isn't mandated by law. 

               " What's more important, going to a Christmas party

                   or doing the right thing to get that virus under control? " 

Brilliant. Nailed it. Let's hope that people will listen and stay at home.

Biggi