[Alberta's Child]

More than 200 Palestinians from the camp, which has been under siege since 2103, have died as a result of lack of food or medicine. The conditions in the refugee camp, by any standard, are horrific.

More than 100,000 Palestinians used to live in the 2.11 square-kilometer Yarmouk camp before the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.

Here's what I don't get:

- 2013 was five years ago.

- Since 2013, 200 people in this camp "have died as a result of lack of food or medicine."

- The population of this camp at its peak was 100,000 people.

In an average city of 100,000 people in the U.S. or any other advanced country, how many people would die over the course of five years of ordinary causes? I would assume that it's far more than 200!

[Eleutheria5]

In the US, zero people would die of starvation or lack of medicine. They’d get mugged by a jumpy addict with a knife, fall out of windows, get heart attacks, expire of old age. Those are your ordinary causes. But starvation or lack of medicine, unheard of in the US, same as dying of artillery fire, which would be an “ordinary cause” in Yarmouk, too.