I was listening to the news this week and one of the anchors said that we needed to put the 137,000 people dead in four months into a context people can understand.
He said to imagine those 137,000 dead people were airline passengers. Losing 137,000 people in four months would be equivalent to 50 planes a week crashing, for four months, with all on board dying.
50 PLANE CRASHES A WEEK. For four months. All on board, DEAD. He said if planes were falling out of the sky at a rate of 50 per week, not only would people be horrified, but they would expect something to be done. The government wouldn't be shrugging their shoulders and acting like it was no big deal.
I thought this was a great way to put it. No one would or could ignore that. No one would call it a hoax. No one would question the "science". No one would ignore it for four months. People would want answers and they would be afraid to get on a plane until something was done.
Planes are crashing around us and no one is taking it seriously.