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Hospitals were affected too, I don't think it's that far fetched to think some people died, or at least some could not have been saved due to this incident.


> Hospitals were affected too, I don't think it's that far fetched to think some people died

Absent evidence I’d say it is.

Hospitals have emergency downtime procedures [1]. From what I can tell, the outage was stressful, not deadly.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/07/21/nx-s1-5046700/the-crowdstrike...


Apply additional stress to a sufficiently large system that human lives depend on, and someone, somewhere will die.


> Apply additional stress to a sufficiently large system that human lives depend on, and someone, somewhere will die

Sure. Who did?

When a bridge collapses, this isn’t a tough problem. We don’t need to reason from first principles to derive the dead bodies. That’s the difference.




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