[FRIAM] millenarianism

[Marcus Daniels]

How does one weight these 4k deaths against the 66k<https://trumpdeathclock.com/> which are attributed to Trump’s inaction on COVID-19?

Stalin’s insight suggests it is better to go big, then be surgical:  “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

If some bad thing is going to happen, make it big and nebulous enough that people can’t reason about it..

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 10:50 AM
To: "friam at redfish.com" <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism

Stephen,

Thanks for encouraging me to drop down a Wikipedia hole.
Somehow I was interested in this data found on the Drone Strikes in Pakistan<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan> page:


The Bureau of Investigative Journalism<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Investigative_Journalism> estimates the following cumulative statistics about U.S. drone strikes (as of 17 September 2017):[20]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#cite_note-BOIJ-20>
·         Total strikes: 429
·         Total killed: 2,514 – 4,023
·         Civilians killed: 424 – 969
·         Children killed: 172 – 207
·         Injured: 1,162 – 1,749
·         Strikes under the Bush Administration<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush>: 51
·         Strikes under the Obama Administration<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration>: 373
·         Strikes under the Trump Administration<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump>: 5
·         84 of the 2,379 dead have been identified as members of al-Qaeda[60]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#cite_note-60>

A formerly classified Pakistani government report obtained in July 2013 by the BIJ shows details of 75 drone strikes that occurred between 2006–09. According to the 12-page report, in this period, 176 of the 746 reported dead were civilians.[61]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#cite_note-61> According to the Long War Journal, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and the New America Foundation, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 had some of the highest civilian casualty ratios<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio> of any years.
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