Yeah, we need some sort of standard here.

spiked | A proxy war of a different sort:

Of course, everybody has been moved by the terrible scenes of dead civilians, many of them children, after the Israeli attack on the Lebanese village of Qana. But put such a loss of life in a wider context, and it becomes clear that the death toll to date is not particularly high by historical standards.

How about the Black Plague? Work for you?

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