lol how can you trust this numbers when they have already lied before

or when the real number is so bad that an insane number like 500 is supposed to seem like an acceptable figure

How big is the original number if they were comfortable admitting to 400-500?

The fact that World Cup Deaths are not only a thing with this World Cup, but that they number in the triple digits fucking sickens me.

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Probably reporting at most 10% of the actual losses.

Or its 400-500 Qataris that died, the other thousands were all migrant worker slaves and don't count in their views.

They have occurred before, but it's like one guy fell off a crane, we heard about it right away, then practices were adjusted so it wouldn't happen again.

Here it's just been buried, business as usual, more where that came from. Order more steel, more concrete, more workers, etc.

It's usually more than just one person falling off a crane. People die, and considering how long it takes to build a World Cup, and how many people are involved, 500 people could be a reasonable number.

What we need is a number showing how many preventable deaths were directly caused by the World Cup. Most of these figures being reported are stupid things like total number of workers who died in Qatar in the last ten years, which is a pointless figure that does nothing except make people angry.

It will be the same when the American countries host in 2026. In the eight years from 2018-2026, a lot of people working construction jobs in all three countries will die. Especially when you consider that Covid happened during those years too.

Somehow I'm sure people won't count the deaths in the same way for that tournament though.

Dafuq are you talking about?

A lot of people die everyday. Attributing every death over ten years to the World Cup is misleading and just done to make Qatar look worse than they already are.

This is an argument so illogical and ridiculous I won't bother.

Way to choose "Qatar isn't that bad" as your hill to die on though

I understand this is supposed to be number of deaths caused by building/prep for the world cup but the headline makes it sound like these are people dead so far in the world cup, like it's a deathsport or something.

Hey guys don't worry... The cup nots over yet,

WTF. I worked a stadium project before, and there was zero deaths.

Wasn’t it like a grand total of 3, according to Qatari officials last week? That escalated quickly.

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1. Bullshit.

2. That’s still not good, Qatar.

I didn't say they're not bad.

Yes. So now you understand that the deaths reported in Qatar are ridiculous.

I looked up fatal occupational injuries in NYC just for reference. In 2020 it was under 60. That’s for the entire city of NY across all industries. Qatar is a much smaller place.

400-500 too many

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I mean…even if this were remotely accurate, it’s still like 100x more than any other World Cup ever…

But we all know it’s actually 10x more than this…

Basically, fuck Qatar

Considering they built an entire city for the World Cup with slave labor, the death count is way higher for sure

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