Commentary Anyone who still insists the COVID pandemic isn’t serious is being deliberately mischievous, obtuse, or needs to check in on their issues. As of Dec. 23, the World Health Organization put global deaths from COVID-19 at 5.3 million people dating back to Dec. 30, 2019. To put that in a fathomable context, it’s equivalent to 12,780 crashes of fully loaded 747s in which all 416 passengers are killed. Over the course of the pandemic’s two years, that works out to 17 such catastrophes a day. Even if we accept that, say, half the deaths said to be from COVID are really with COVID—i.e., the person died from other causes and just happened to be COVID-positive—that still equals a horrifying number of bodies coming down from the sky. So… not serious? Seriously, it’s serious. It has been from the get-go. And some of the severest damage from disputing COVID’s seriousness …