> How many people died or were seriously injured in the latest Cloudflare outage?

I would not be surprised if the answer is "several". The average impact per human is obviously pretty small, but across billions of humans, there will be outliers.

Maybe a fire department uses a coordination system that relies on cloudflare, and with cloudflare down they have to resort to their backup system, and their backup system works but is slightly worse and causes one engine to be delayed in their response, and because they're 3 minutes late, they just miss being able to save someone from the fire.

Maybe someone's running a scientific study on nutrition, and the cloudflare outage means their data collection system is goes down for a bit, so their data flawed, and they end up just barely not passing a some necessary threshold, and they have to rerun their study, and that takes an extra week, and then they miss that quarter's deadline, and then the resulting adjustment to a product/procedure is delayed, and that 3 month delay causes 100,000 people to be slightly more malnourished than they would be otherwise, and one of those people ends up just barely too unhealthy to survive an unrelated deadly illness.

Sure, these scenarios are far-fetched. The chance of if it happening is one-in-a-million.

There are 10000 one-in-a-million people on the earth.

Sure, but this sentiment is why software "engineering" isn't really. You can justify it by not being important enough for actual engineering practices I guess, but to me it's a lack of pride in and care of your product.