Ventura, California · EN / ES
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Stories designed for clarity · written, designed & built by Carlos Vasquez
The lead story · interactive data essay
By the editor · 12,000 words · charts drawn in plain SVG
A 30-minute scroll through the WHO’s 2025 Commission, the Holt-Lunstad mortality meta-analyses, and the contagion research, with an interactive self-test and a public manifest of every figure. It tries to keep the people visible inside the numbers.
‘Nobody chose those odds. They were set long before any of us showed up.’
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