Rough numbers look like around 20 million dead for the historical Nazi comparison (concentration camps, soviets, etc). The chart in this substack caught my attention:
If you assume the 6 million dead from covid this "Our World in Data" chart shows (which I don't, these numbers are absurdly rigged. But let's be generous), and track up to the lower bound of "excess dead" at something like 17 million, we reach 11 million non-covid excess dead. If we use the upper bound of something like 27 million, then we are at 21 million non-covid excess dead, surpassing the WW2 numbers already, and my sense is we are just getting started.
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Re: Emily Oster says 'Let's forgive and forget'
Date: 2022-11-06 08:04 pm (UTC)https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/death-tsunami-they-found-a-way-to
If you assume the 6 million dead from covid this "Our World in Data" chart shows (which I don't, these numbers are absurdly rigged. But let's be generous), and track up to the lower bound of "excess dead" at something like 17 million, we reach 11 million non-covid excess dead. If we use the upper bound of something like 27 million, then we are at 21 million non-covid excess dead, surpassing the WW2 numbers already, and my sense is we are just getting started.
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