Screams of Death during Pandemic

Death is death. However, if we look at death as just a number, we can carelessly compare deaths due to Covid-19 with deaths from common fever, heart attack, kidney disease and even traffic accidents.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, statistics are talked about a lot. We like to read numbers. Without realizing it, we are trapped in how to understand [such a phenomenon], which makes us perceive Covid-19 as if it were just the ups and downs of case numbers.

For example, data on 15 March 2021 showed the total number of Covid-19 cases in the world was 120,399,288, the number of people recovered was 96,944,566 and the number of deaths was 2,664,622. In Indonesia, positive Covid-19 cases stood at 1,425,044, recoveries 1,249,947 and deaths 38,573.