A Sense of Scale

It's easy to dismiss the small numbers of positive cases in Iron County (and other places).

Here's how I scale it. The U.S has a population of about 340,000,000 people. Iron County has a population of about 34,000. That means we are 1/10,000 of the U.S.

So we had 5 positive today. Scaling up, that would mean 50,000 positives for the country.

But the country did not have that many today ... just 23K.

To me, that suggests that what we are feeling on a "better" day in Iron County is worse than average for the rest of the country.

We just haven't had our 1/10,000th of national deaths yet. That would be about 10 for our little slice of heaven.