Three deadly disasters from history and their even worse equivalents

Your Definition of ‘Bad’ May Not Be Bad After All

The human mind always assumes that what is happening is the worst. (Public Domain, Source: Yosh Ginsu/Unsplash)

Whenever anything wrong happens or an unexpected calamity strikes, the human mind automatically assumes that the current situation is the worst — ‘this is the worst that ever happened’, ‘I don’t recall a time when anything was as fatal as this’ — even if worse things…