Re:Qatar World Cup: a tournament shadowed by corruption, suf...
by tzs on Sunday December 10, 2023 @04:58AM
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The 6500 is all deaths of migrant workers who were in Qatar at the time of death, not just work related deaths. See [1] and [2].
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...
Re:Qatar World Cup: a tournament shadowed by corruption, suf...
by monlockandkey on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:09PM
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The infamous Guardian headline "6500 migrants died since world cup awarded to Qatar" is deliberately misleading to get people to think 6500 people died building the stadiums. Since people naturally assume migrant == working on stadiums.
In a country of 2.6 million people, Qatar is 90% migrants, laborers to white collar workers. Over the span of 10+ years, there will be mortality for that population.
It is like making a headline "450,000 black Americans have died in the year Biden took office". How foolish would a news journal would look if they published a headline like that?
You are comparing the rate of work related deaths in one population with total deaths in another population.
The total death rate will obviously include non work related deaths like car accidents and such. That's what your America male 15-24 death rate statistic is about.
Meanwhile the Qatari migrant worker death rate is focused on work related issues. Death due to work should be pretty close to 0 in a wealthy country like Qatar shouldn't it?