3 February

Using maths to do politics. 0.1% is 1 in 1000 people. Starts to look a bit less rosy when you rephrase it that way? That’s over 25,000 Covid deaths every year (flu kills 1000 in a bad flu year.) To put this in perspective, if 0.1% of those who travel on planes in Australia were killed, 5000 would die in plane crashes every month.