How To Visualize 500,000 COVID Deaths

If you're still too ignorant to believe or understand the death toll from COVID-19 over the past year, the Washington Post can quickly enlighten you. 

Artur Galocha and  Bonnie Berkowitz have created powerful visualizations of what the number 500,000  looks like.

They created three scenarios:

"If 500,000 passengers traveled by bus … Carrying all 500,000 people would require a caravan of 9,804 buses that would stretch 94.7 miles."

"If the Vietnam Veterans Memorial contained 500,000 names …  If a similar structure of the same length were to list the names of the 500,000 killed by the novel coronavirus, it would soar to 87 feet tall."

"If 500,000 people were buried at Arlington …  The number of people already killed by coronavirus  in this country would instantly fill a new cemetery  the size of Arlington."

Look at the graphics on the page, then try to tell the authors it's all just a hoax.