[Pearls Before Swine]

Ahh. Now I understand. I thought I was supposed to see from looking at the page. I would have understood you if it was a clearer image.

And that’s a careful analysis relating the obit page to the death stats.

[Zhang Fei]

[Ahh. Now I understand. I thought I was supposed to see from looking at the page. I would have understood you if it was a clearer image.

And that’s a careful analysis relating the obit page to the death stats.]

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A footnote - not everyone has living relatives willing to pony up for an obituary. And of those who do pay up, presumably not everyone does so in that particular daily. So the obituary expansion in this particular Italian paper is probably not all-inclusive of the extraordinary death toll from this virus.

[Zhang Fei]

2nd footnote - if this bug is just the flu, the question is why the obituaries went from 1.5 pages to 10. We’d have to assume that survivors of the coronavirus dead are much more into paying for obituaries than the relatives of people who died from the flu.