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Sources?

I found eg https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r... which tries to count all deaths, not just what can be attributed to the football stadiums.

(It's a high death toll in any case. But we should still stick to the facts.)

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I said dozens because it seems credible, I didn't look anything up. It's somewhat common for construction workers to die even in the modern world, but my shock is more that it seems worse than most projects (Was it Guardian who had the story about people getting so tired they fell asleep and fell off the stadium roof?), yet most projects are for genuinely useful things like bridges and dams, not entertainment.

> I said dozens because it seems credible, I didn't look anything up.

So you literally just made up a statistic out of nothing and posted it here? Why do you think that’s ok?

Lol....it's an internet forum, not a referenced work like Wikipedia.

Alan:

Dozens of people died of COVID last year.

Beth:

You forking idiot, millions died, not dozens.

Alan:

Okay, so it's a lot of dozens. What's your problem?

There's a big difference between making it up and having a hunch from reading a bit, without the specific sources to hand. There's nothing wrong with that, you can go and do your own research if you want, don't expect me to do it for you.

It's pretty laughable for you to suggest that people can't just say what they want on the internet

Nah you were speaking higher than your hat

"There's a big difference between making it up and having a hunch from reading a bit" - this is the laughable part, because they state a number in the article, so clearly a BIT of reading was the most that was done. Ha. If you're going to just throw out a random but plausible number for your argument's sake, you grab it from the article, if you've read far enough to see it.

It's not a high death toll (they have 1.5million workers of these nationalities). There is no transparent due-process for the identification of the death cause or the investigation of the working conditions. So these numbers don't really translate to much...

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