SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Drowning by numbers
Get used to viral dystopia – it’s coming faster than you think
03 July 2020 - 06:00
There’s a point at which numbers become so enormous they simply overwhelm the imagination and are rendered almost meaningless.
The International Monetary Fund this week estimated that Covid-19 could cost the global economy $12-trillion over this year and next. In GDP terms, that’s a whole China...
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