Sorry what? Are your numbers the world or US? In either way I think it's just impossible, no? There can't be hundreds of millions of deaths in the US due to sta

Sorry what? Are your numbers the world or US? In either way I think it's just impossible, no? There can't be hundreds of millions of deaths in the US due to starvation after this I don't think I need to justify this claim. (if you disagree let me know) and I'm willing to bet that death from the disease in the whole world is more than a million easily. OK so the only possible interpretation is you're saying the shutdown is going to kill a lot of people from economic effects in poorer countries? I think this is nonsense. The shutdown is most prominent in richer countries, where it's unlikely to cause massive deaths to starvation. Whether the economic effect has a large toll or not, it will not be 3 orders of magnitude more than the disease, that's just hogwash.