• yoshi@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    Seeing the raw numbers is impactful and I would also like to see these figures as percentages of the whole since they’re comparing different times with different populations.

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      7 hours ago

      I was gonna say. The US population was 207M when I was born. It’s now 335M. I would expect percentages to be far more telling.

      • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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        7 hours ago

        I’d much prefer my children alive and autistic than dead (or debilitatingly disabled) too.

        There’s something weird about people who seem to think the other way around.

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        7 hours ago

        I was wondering about that as I was furiously typing out my scathing sarcastic bullshit with a shit eating grin on my face.

  • will_a113@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.