True, always be wary when people use percentages, it's usually done to make numbers seem scary, the anti-gunners use this technique a lot. The 40% doesn't tell us anything without knowing what numbers it's derived from, a 40% increase over ten deaths is still not that many, 10000 or 100000 is a different story.Without his dataset, nothing can really be inferred. Have to see age/sex/comorbidities breakdown to be able to integrate this into the overall picture.
As it is, it’s panic porn.