Reason vs. passion …

… Argumentum ad Trumpum - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In this article, Lévy, or BHL as he is usually known, pointed out the difference between our response to the COVID-19 epidemic, and that of the Asian and Hong Kong flus of 1957 and 1968, respectively. These two epidemics were more serious, both relatively and absolutely, than COVID-19: They killed a larger absolute number of people in a world population that was much smaller than the present one. (The author prudently admits that, since the COVID-19 epidemic is not yet over, we do not know how many people it will kill in the end.)