Fun World Cup Fact:
The @guardian story, later amplified by @Reuters, that 6,500 migrant workers died building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums was bogus.
The 6,500 figure was actually the TOTAL number of people from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka who died in Qatar from 2011-2020, regardless of occupation or cause of death.
That’s 650 deaths per year across nearly 2 million expats from those five nationalities: a yearly mortality rate of just 0.0325% from ALL causes. The yearly mortality rate for QATARIS was actually higher at 0.0571%.
The real number of deaths among workers involved in stadium construction was 40. Of those, 37 were non-work-related. Only 3 were construction accidents.
For comparison: Brazil had 8 World Cup construction deaths. Russia had 21.
So how did Qatar maintain such a low fatality rate despite building far more infrastructure?
By implementing some of the strictest worker safety measures ever seen at a World Cup, including mandatory StayQool cooling suits with patented heat-management technology that may eventually become standard for construction workers worldwide.
Instead of having any kind of humility and learning from these developments, they chose racism and straight up lying.
SHELL SHOCK: A tortoise narrowly escaped tragedy after a fallen heat lamp ignited her shed, with security footage capturing her scrambling to safety as flames raged behind her.
Do the math. The vote on Tuesday night was 217 - 215. George Soros is pulling millions into the WI Supreme Court race because a 4-3 liberal majority will redraw Congressional districts to squeeze out 2 GOP seats. This is how he blocks the Trump agenda. We can’t let that happen.
Joshua Zirkzee has come back to the City fans who were behind the United dugout and given it the big one straight after the full-time whistle 🔴 #MCIMUN