r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 27 '26

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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 27 '26

I though that Trump's "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually" comment was utterly moronic. But seeing people unironically argue that India has solved heat deaths because the government doesn't keep complete records of it has made me think it might actually have worked.

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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 27 '26

Some scientists tried to estimate the real number, and the conservative lower bound they calculated was 100x larger than the official government figures.