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covid-in-pixels.eliothertenstein.com

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It's easy to lose track of the scale after scrolling for a while.

This website uses a ruler and distance to help show scale: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

With all of that death, you'd think we'd have a worldwide moratorium on Gain of Function research and a massive international investigation into the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology by now.

Nope. Back to the office, piggies.

If everyone wanted that research banned but China didn’t, where would that leave things?

This is cool, but it’s so overwhelming it’s hard to grasp. I think it would benefit from from like a scroll bar or something to get a sense of the progress (or lack thereof) while scrolling

… does your browser not have a scroll bar?

… it was so long I literally had to grab the thumb on mine to get to the bottom?

Safari on iPhone does not :(

You can quickly scroll through, that’s what I did.

Tip: Safari on iPhone does have a draggable scroll bar.

1. Scroll so the scroll bar shows.

2. Put your finger over the scroll bar.

3. Wait for the scrollbar to get bigger, with haptic feedback.

4. Now you can drag the scroll bar!

Well, this is a boring site, representing things with pixels isn't original, I was thinking maybe you placed the pixel geographically and one could see the spread of infections (or deaths), but it's just a boring "Get vaccinated!" PSA...

Since this might matter: Yes I'm vaxed, and with 3 booster shots.

Yeah pretty much late to the get vaccinated fun party!

So cool, I have seen data visualisation for HIV, WW2 & 1 but not for Covid

(Why is this being downvoted lol?)

Stop drawing those pixels, people are dying!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/

The website shows 6,841,400 total deaths. That's a very "conservative" number.

Both The Economist [1] and the WHO [2] for instance say that the number may well be way more than the official one (The Economist is at 29+ million now).

I know firsthand for certain that there's a country in the world that LIED about the numbers (not underestimated, but LIED). I won't name the country.

I think it will be in the history manuals that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most, if not the most, devastating pandemic of the 21st century (maybe of the 20th century, too, for some countries [3]).

What is also shocking is the fact that many deaths are correlated with vaccine-skepticism (or to be more colloquial, covidiocy) [4]

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/covid-global-death...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/covid-19-death...

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...

Thanks to the vaccines I think Covid wasn't able to match the 1918 flu.

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