muscleupcrohn
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Come on man; the curve of auto accidents is not even remotely similar to this virus if it was left unchecked. Either you’re being disingenuous, or you have a fundamental misunderstanding of basic statistical analysis...Auto accidents hit a peak at some point and flatten the curve, just like a virus. Exept cars are worse because its for the most part a guaranteed high death rate year round, year after year for the rest of our lives. If we social distance and limit movement the auto accidents would significantly drop....
At a rate of 4k auto fatalities a month, we should have about 14,000 deaths already from auto accidents but fortunately because of current social distancing we have dropped the auto accident mortality curve significantly. Think of the people what would have died if we didnt social distance?
People need to just stop driving to work, or perhaps limit the speed limit to 5mph. Cars are dangerous projectiles, they not only kill other drivers but innocent pedestrians including children. You do like children do you? Or maybe not? Or your ok with someone driving over slow walking grandma?
And Im not belittling the virus, Im just trying to put this into perceptive as I sense an extreme over-reaction and solution to the situation.
Its really ridicous if you ask me, you dont solve a crisis by creating another artificial one. Many more people will potentially die from these horrific policies especially if the system totally breaks.
My point is that, yes, we can’t have INDEFINITE lockdown forever until we have a vaccine, but if we are able to PREPARE better before opening up, or before opening fully, that’s great. Every day we learn more about the virus, how to best treat it, what medicines to use, what not to use, we get more equipment, ventilators, etc. Nothing that major/new is going to happen with improvements in preventing or treating car accidents in the coming months, so suggesting drastic changes/restrictions to driving is not directly comparable, as it’s unlikely we’ll have major ways to treat/prevent them any time soon.
You CAN make arguments about when to start reopening things, and economic impact, etc. WITHOUT making asinine and irrelevant and misleading comparisons.