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Unsurprisingly, Qatar has strongly disputed these figures, claiming that only 37 deaths have occurred among workers on stadium construction sites: three have been attributed to work accidents and 34 to other causes (10 of which involved men aged between 20 and 40).

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sooo which is the lie?

Boycott

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)

> DOHA, Qatar - A top Qatari official involved in the country's World Cup organization has put the number of worker deaths for the tournament "Between 400 and 500" for the first time, a drastically higher number than any other previously offered by Doha.

> In the interview, portions of which Morgan posted online, the British journalist asks al-Thawadi: "What is the honest, realistic total do you think of migrant workers who died from - as a result of work they're doing for the World Cup in totality?".

> Al-Thawadi's comment also renews questions on the veracity of both government and private business reporting on worker injuries and deaths across the Gulf Arab states, whose skyscrapers have been built by laborers from South Asia nations like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

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its so much....

How is this 'normal' or being casual about, just 400 death, its because they treat this imported workers as expendables just like machineries.

6500

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022

Yes. They'd sacrifice ten thousand foreigners to save one of their own.

I mean there are 8,000,000,000 of us on the planet.

As if it matters which is a lie. In any 1st World Country the death toll would have been 0.

ITT people who don’t know how to compare apples to apples.

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Safety measures have a changed since the building of the Manhattan Bridge, lol

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I would say in the last 40 years there have still been improvements

That’s what I was going to say as well. Any modern country would start serious investigations if the death toll on a project exceeded 1 person.

400-500 lol they only try to damage control...

give or take a thousand or so.

I was curious about this and did some googling. In USA during 2020, about 1008 construction workers were killed in construction accidents.

Bay bridge was built in 1936 and another span added in 2013.
24 deaths in 36 vs 0 in 2013.

Cruelty is fine as long as the middle and upper class aren't affected too much.
In this case most of the 400 are "guest" workers which is very close to saying 'enslaved'.

They thought that was a good number. 🤬

When people tell you how awful they are, believe them.

U got that straight

I hate that the whole world is just going along with it like it’s normal I wish my countries media would refuse to televise the event, or the broadcast crews that they sent would just refuse to work..

False equivalency. Your comparing construction of one facility to construction of many facilities.

Manhattan Bridge 1909 is not equivalent to a stadium built post-2000.

The 400 figure is including other construction work such as hotels and subways. The 37 figure is only arenas.

A lot more fucked up things are normal in our world unfortunately.

And how exactly does that make anything better…let’s say it’s 500 and not the probably more accurate number of 6500…that’s still 500 innocent dead people dying in terrible circumstances just for a few week long football game…this shitshow should’ve never even have started from the beginning. Dear FIFA, think twice next time before picking a rich corrupt Middle Eastern countries with no human rights and a agenda to whitewash themselves for a shitton of crash.

Not saying they are equivalent. USA also has a much bigger population. But I was questioning your statement that a 1st World Country would have a death toll of 0. You may want to revise that opinion. South Korea also has over 100 deaths this year.

Exactly don't watch the games, don't support it in anyway.

Qataris and FIFA officials keep downvoting all negative references to this corrupt World Cup. I’m keeping them busy ;)

Yeah I just meant that on any single modern construction project in America, having more than one death would be pretty surprising.

Not the same guy you replied to, but I still think it's a fair statement.

There's a big difference between infrastructure construction and just general construction. The amount of OH&S oversight would be several orders of magnitude larger.

I expect the vast majority of deaths would be happening at small scale construction sites, where the safety officer is "my mate John, he sometimes doesn't turn up drunk"

They treat their workers like they are trash. You know if it wasn't for them they would actually have to work and be sweating and suffering. They should at the least show them some respect for doing the hard work they don't want to touch cuz in their mind they are too good for it. Teaching all the young generation to be lazy ass no good for nothings, to just wait around to have stuff handed to them.

They can't, ~15% of their population is quatri, they can't exist without their slave workers at this point

They don't even walk to the mall, they are so lazy they have to take a car even to the corner store. Its ridiculous how lazy someone can evolve to be when you have literal slaves doing everything for you.