Posts tagged Roger Cohen
Day 25 Superheroes; or, The Good News & The Bad News

There’s good news and there’s bad news. No surprise there. This is where numbers fail us big-time. Try these two. Eighty percent of people who get coronavirus recover. Do the math. This means twenty percent of people who get coronavirus die. Okay, pay attention. How do you feel having just read those three sentences? Now, try these. Twenty percent of people who get coronavirus die. Do the math. This means eighty percent of people who get coronavirus recover.

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