I’m not totally sure what point you’re making, but I don’t see an inconsistency between the two portions of comment that you quoted here. “Thousands of people”

I’m not totally sure what point you’re making, but I don’t see an inconsistency between the two portions of comment that you quoted here. “Thousands of people” covers at least 3 orders of magnitude, depending how loose you get with the language… I don’t see the contradiction in “the error bands are wider without the high-fidelity surveillance, but even from fuzzier sources, the absolute minimum is definitely in the thousands.” [ETA: A June study in the Lancet estimates the cuts to USAID (if sustained) will result in 14 million deaths by 2030: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ]