“Crazy Numbers” / Memorable Fancies #2323

[“By 1980, deinstitutionalization was in full swing. The nation’s asylum population had dropped by more than 300 percent, to fewer than 140,000.” – New York Review, issue dated October 25. 2018, page 38.]

If the asylum population had dropped 100 percent, there would be fewer than one person confined. But when it dropped by 300+ percent, well then,…!