• PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
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    22 hours 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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      18 hours ago

      Because the areas that needed the aid programs have well run and stable governments that provide live census updates?

      Edit: ah I see what you mean now. There’s certainly been individual recorded deaths from starvation however. That data is what you build these models from.