“Kill one, it’s a tragedy. Kill a million, it’s a statistic.”

YouTube Channel WawamuStats Visually Tracks Spread Of COVID-19

As one particularly nasty historical figure once said, “Kill one, it’s a tragedy. Kill a million, it’s a statistic.”

While the Coronavirus pandemic claims more than 1 million cases worldwide, the crisis creeps onto that realm of numbers beyond the mind’s ability to envision or compare. In those cases, visuals can take the place of raw stats to demonstrate the course of worldwide events. One popular social media site looks to do exactly that.