The plague only claimed 450,000 lives this month, as opposed to 510,000 (revised upwards) last month. This indicates that our new placebo vaccine is a complete success, and that we have eradicated all cases of the disease.

Only the negative, biased, uneducated blogger types would bring up the thought that the number is lower simply because there are fewer people to get sick, or that the number will be revised upwards next month like it has been every month for the last few years.