User blog:Skyzy/How Many Grounders Did the Mountain Men Harvest?

This is pure speculation filled with estimations and guesswork.

How many years?
 * 50 years starting with once a month and progressing to weekly
 * The Harvest Project started 56 years ago, so I'm rounding down to 50 and writing off the first 6 years as R&D.
 * Mount Weather was falling apart just like the Ark so it's also assumed that this is an exponential increase (they didn't need weekly treatments initially)

How many treatments and how often?
 * Estimating treatment every 7 days for each of the 400 people within Mount Weather.
 * According to the Dialysis schedule in Coup de Grâce, the Mountain Men were getting treatments approximately every 7 days (sometimes more frequently).
 * In Blood Must Have Blood (Part 1), we know that members of the resistance would sometimes skip treatments so I'll use this to cancel out the extra blood treatments others may have received.
 * Dr. Tsing says there are 382 Mountain Men in Long Into an Abyss. This is an oddly specific number repeated by Maya. My guess is that 400 is their population equilibrium and that their lower number is just showing further how they're dying off (and probably not able to have as many viable children with all that radiation exposure).

How many treatments can a Grounder survive before being disposed of?
 * Estimating 4 times (4 pints of blood) before they're useless based on how much blood you can lose

Now time for maths. Year 1: Once a month treatment for 400 = 4800 treatments = 1200 dead Grounders a year Year 25: Bi-monthly treatment for 400 = 9600 treatments = 2400 dead Grounders a year Year 50: Weekly treatment for 400 = 20800 treatments = 5200 dead Grounders a year.

45,000 dead Grounders in the first 25 years. (1200+2400/2*25) 95,000 dead Grounders in the last 25 years. (2400+5200/2*25)

My guess is I'm low-balling it at 140,000 Grounders murdered by the Mountain Men over 50 years.