Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: David Martin
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:27

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Mike Dickson wrote:
> In article <1120397824.268880.200920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> martin-family@blueyonder.co.uk wrote...
>
> > > How many deaths are you expecting in Edinburgh this weekend?  Its just
> > > that poverty will kill around 60,000 people this weekend
> >
> > Assume a polupation of 1 million people.
>
> Ooooh...bad start.

OK, divide by 2 and add all the extra protest tourists (250K?)

The answer then becomes 50-75 deaths..

I was attempting to put a real number to the question, and (unusually
for Usenet) showed all the assumptions (and labelled as such).

..d

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