How are we doing?

Jacinda Ardern, re-elected prime minister of New Zealand/Aotearoa, was famous for saying that every death by covid was a tragedy to be avoided. It created an echo across the world. Why can't we have a prime minister like her? But how has the current calamity affected the world? Here are recent statistics from John Hopkins University USA showing the percentage of fatalities accross the world. The hardest hit country is Belgium, with 1/10th of a percent of the country having died by the virus.

The world has seen worse of course with the Black Death claiming about 30% of the population. I assume that it was the tough ones that survived at that time, rather than any 'social isolating' going on, though this was a factor in the saving of the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. I'm not for survival of the fitest, but I do agree that perspective is needed, and decisions made with an eye on the wellbeing of all, not just the rich.