We are living in an era which bombards us with statistics every day. There are of course the statistics on the state, national, and global increases (or decreases) in new cases of the coronavirus. There are the similar reports of mortality at all levels. There are also reports of unemployment claims and GDP numbers both actual and projected. For the most part these are broad estimates which slowly catch up with a reality we already grasp intuitively. Things are bad and destined to get worse. Period.
Meanwhile there's the stock market, which usually leads the