• 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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      1 day ago

      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?