COVID-19: Desensitizing numbers
One case of Covid!
Beware, COVID-19’s here!
Careful, don’t go out!
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Going on two years
Covid numbers kept climbing
Up-trend graphics show!
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More daily numbers
What statistics, what numbers?
The figure’s blurring!
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SOPs complied,
Yet the number kept rising
Soon, it is numbing.
Chen Song Ping 
For sure we’ve become desensitized. And also more inhumane.
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Honestly, it’s become almost like I am listening to reports of a company I have no share in. I can’t process the numbers
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Numbing indeed!!
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They call it psychic numbing!
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Absolutely true!!
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Your phrases are short but capture so much!
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Thank you, Geoff! 🙏🙏🙏
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I understand the perspective, but the other point of view is that each number represents a broken family. Of course, it’s harder to sympathize with those for whom the damage is at least partially self-inflicted.
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Yes, many families are affected😔
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Remembering what the numbers represent helps to dispel desensitization.
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