Official numbers are that 50,000 Americans have died of Covid-19. It’s probably closer to 80,000, but let’s say that it’s 50,000.

To put that in perspective, that’d be every single resident of the county where I grew up when I left in 1994 — and about 3,000 more. In the context of the US, it’s not much. In the context of humanity on a more comprehensible scale, it’s a whole lot.