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Re: by screye on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:06PM (#45456186)
I haven't seen any numbers exceeding 100k. Where did you get 600k from ?

the article is taking projections and applying multiple extrapolations to them. It is a bad estimate.

The current estimates are between 53000 - 66000. About 10x lower than what you propose.

Re: by phgn on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:36PM (#45456433)
I got them from the article which I linked in my comment.
Re: by screye on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:51PM (#45456522)
I read the article. It piled about 5 different assumptions on top of each other.

It takes the upper bound for the deaths in the first 9 months. Then extrapolates it linearly to the last 2.5 years. Then multiplies it by 4, because it estimates that starvation deaths must be 4x.

At that point, why even guess ?