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I said mostly. Some die without medicine, but I'd argue that the number is small in comparison with people who are affected economically. By focusing on deaths, you're effectively minimizing the problem.

It's similar to issues like homelessness: 0.15% of the population are on the street, but the number of people affected by housing costs is much larger.

Or police shootings of unarmed black men: 100-200 per year, which pales in comparison with millions of incarcerated black men.

We hear so much about these tiny problems is because political activists have chosen media-centric strategies to influence policy makers. The idea is to use outrage to get on the news, and then bring up the bigger issues. But in practice, policy makers just solve the outrageous problem: body cams for police; more shelters. Then the media goes away.