457 deaths in US history.
1200 deaths a day from diarrhea in India.
Put it in perspective.
A larger number of people dying from an unrelated cause in another country doesn’t make these deaths insignificant. By that logic, virtually no problem deserves attention because you can always find something that kills more people.
No way it’s that low in India, either.
Spoken like a non-parent.
The real elephant in the room is that 60% of our school shootings are streetside minority violence spilling into schools, not angry white incels mowing down classmates.
According to UNICEF, globally, Diarrhea causes 444k deaths of children under 5 or ~1200 per day.
Globally, 1.2 million people (all ages) die of diarrhea every year.
India accounts for 120k deaths of children under 4 or roughly one fourth of global D related deaths or 328 deaths per day.
Assuming a similar ratio across all ages, India must account for 300k D related deaths every year of roughly 820 deaths. Not great (obviously) but at least it only accounts for 1/4 of all D deaths, not 1/3rd.
Edit - worth pointing out that India has 1.4B out of 8B humans globally or a little more than 1/6th.
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/diarrhoeal-diseas...
https://www.joghr.org/article/75428-evaluating-india-s-inten...