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by jltsiren 18 days ago
Things are already much better than they used to be. The 2003 heatwave killed ~70k. This year's heatwave was worse, but the number of deaths probably didn't go much beyond 20k.
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We also recently had COVID to cull the herd. I imagine many people are missing from the stats because of it.