> Meanwhile, though, people are starving and dying, in the US, at higher levels than any other industrialized nation, because our social safety net is inadequat

> Meanwhile, though, people are starving and dying, in the US, at higher levels than any other industrialized nation, because our social safety net is inadequate. Yes the death rate is higher in US than a lot of other countries, but overall it is quite low. According to this page [0], it's .64 per 100,000. As of May 20th the population was 329,672,928 [1]. Comes to a total of about 2110 people or 0.0000064 of the population. While tragic nonetheless, is an extremely small number. [0] https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrition/by-country/ https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrit... [1] https://www.census.gov/popclock/ https://www.census.gov/popclock/