Another reason that it’s so funny that Bill Gates post led that photo with “how to lie with statistics” in his book stack. Essentially his own trolling and gotta give him props for that. The average American is so fucking dumb. Numbers and data is all about how it’s presented and interpreted. If you tell someone that isn’t accustomed to looking at data “Omg 3% of people are dying!!”, they are going to panic. If you know how to look at it yourself, you realize that “the worst pandemic since Spanish flu” wasn’t even a blip on the radar.