• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    This isn’t 600,000 recorded deaths to date, its an estimate based on the reduction in budget. Reducing the budget reduces maximum capability, which means its estimated that 600,000 people would have died by now.

    • SlippiHUD@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The 600,000 estimate is how many actual recorded deaths THIS YEAR can be attributed to reduction in USAID.

      So more than 600,000 people have died, only 600,000 can be blamed on MAGA.

      The other estimates are forecasts, but the 600,000 number is to date. Says so in both the headline and the article.

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        No. Go read the source material more carefully. I’ve checked like 5 of the trackers and not a single one I’ve read reports a single actual, verifiable death. Ita pure math. That doesn’t mean there aren’t deaths, it just means this is a purely mathematical estimate. The discussion should be “is this estimate reasonable”, not “lets assume this estimate is reasonable and talk about how bad Trump is”.

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        3 days ago

        Well I though reading the methodology of the source material was more accurate, but I guess fuck me right?