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Now you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing. There was 150,000 + 200,000 reported deaths. Those are also rounded figures. So 350,000.
by dubcanada 6y ago
Now you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing.
There was 150,000 + 200,000 reported deaths. Those are also rounded figures. So 350,000.
- mulmen 6y agoI am using the numbers from the Wikipedia summary. I also checked to see if those numbers include long-term effects which is unclear from my cursory review. I don’t know how many people are in hospitals with life threatening conditions but I suspect it is more than a quarter million, or even half. Based on personal experience in deskside hospital IT browser vulnerabilities are a significant vector. We spent a lot of time re-imaging machines. There have been ransomware attacks at hospitals including deaths. A coordinated attack using this vector could easily cause as many deaths as nuclear weapons have. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hospitals-being-hit-in-coordinated-targeted-ransomware-attack-from-russian-speaking-criminals/2020/10/28/e6e48c38-196e-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hospitals-b...