Moving figures 1
Wednesday 13th May, 2020 – Noon Those who haven't been keeping up with my blog (you bastards!) will have missed my blood-curdling predictions. Those of you who have kept up with them will be annoyed with me because to dare to predict such dire figures is inviting them to happen. Such is superstition (which we all claim we are not prey to). Mention bad stuff, and it happens. So, let's get something straight right now. It's all my fault. Of course, it is not just mentioning bad figures and dire predictions that is the bothersome reality. It's having to work hard to realise that the figures represent real people who have died. They are figures, but not just figures. But in circumstances like this, people want to deal with the figures but not the reality. The alternative is to do anything to make the figures seem smaller. Hence the rise in mentions by politicians of Belgium. Because, you see, Belgium, having a smaller population, ends up having a larger per-thousand de...