It's easy to lose track of the scale after scrolling for a while.<p>This website uses a ruler and distance to help show scale: <a href="https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html" rel="nofollow">https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....</a>
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.<p>Nope. Back to the office, piggies.
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
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...<p>Since this might matter: Yes I'm vaxed, and with 3 booster shots.
Stop drawing those pixels, people are dying!<p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/</a>
The website shows 6,841,400 total deaths. That's a very "conservative" number.<p>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).<p>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.<p>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]).<p>What is also shocking is the fact that many deaths are correlated with vaccine-skepticism (or to be more colloquial, covidiocy) [4]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates" rel="nofollow">https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/covid-global-deaths.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/covid-global-death...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/covid-19-death-toll-1918-flu-pandemic" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/covid-19-death...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...</a>