Topic: corona virus death count compared with driving deaths - page 3. (Read 504 times)

Naw. They should get rid of V-8s, and put jet engines on cars.

 

And more to it, people who died from corona virus are already having some chronic diseases so that actual deaths per million is much lesser than we calculated.
Hope every country will consider this idea.

 

Many people can't understand this one simple truth.

Also, i don't know did you think about that, but it's very funny to see how government react to all this situation: there was a chance to avoid all of this, if EU, USA and other countries would ban air traffic with China. Like Taiwan has done (and yeah, in Taiwan there only 600 ill people for all the time). But government was affected by air company lobbies which didn't want to lose big profits (it's funny that now they losing much more day after day, heh).

So, for clever people it's obvious that government can be into two main conditions: Ignore everything and closing his eyes to problem or overreacting, creating some kind of soviet GULAG . "Great", yeah  

Try curbing a car that is racing along at 60 mph. You could easily wind up with an accident and deaths.

Same with people going into isolation out of fear and panic.

When the REAL stats come out, we will find far more deaths from isolation curbing than if the car missed the curb altogether.

clearly there is enough emergency room bed and operating rooms for car accidents. but when there is not enough ICU beds with CPAP and ventilators. then the choices were to either get more capacity in january/february.. of get people to stop contracting the virus.

obviously they didnt rush to give hospitals extra capacity.

now imagine if you realised for every car that passes you. 30 will be fine 50 will have a mild 'fender bender' 20 will result in needing hospital treatment.
well then once you get to a few thousand road traffic victims a day in hospital, you start to realise that a driving restriction would need to be implemented. where the very minimum is to get people to stick to a '2 second rule' and avoid tailgating eachother
(2 second rule. look for a roadside landmark(sign/object) ahead of the car infront. when it passes car infront start counting. if you pass it before you count to 2 seconds. your too close)

though less people per million die due to car accidents than what covid could kill without isolation.. but cars are not free to drive at any speed... cars have speed restrictions, cars have seatbelts. drivers take DriversEd to learn how to be responsible. there are rules to not just bump into people and even signs telling drivers when to stop and go to avoid pumping into people.

so if you think cars are limitless utility. you obviously forgot all the safety precautions cars have.. because you have accepted it as the norm.

im still shocked that capitalist america hasnt tried cashing in on human/public liability insurance for bumping into people
i can see it already. track and trace used to sue/insurance claim against the person that bumped into you and passed you covid

Clearly we need to ban cars until there are zero traffic deaths.

Frankly speaking (well, writing actually), I don't see how scary deaths from driving can get though. Even if it outpaces the rate of death from Coronavirus. Despite road accidents and mishaps, a lot of people still buy automobiles and learn driving daily. Commuters aren't scared a bit. But for Coronavirus, people are scared the heck of going out and want to stick to self isolation and social distancing just to curb it. There is Coronavirus fright in the land.

shows how self isolation curbed the spread before it outpaced traffic deaths.
your forgetting what self isolation done. and didnt factor that into your math

at an r0 of 2.6 and if self isolation was delayed by just a few more weeks. you would not be whistling the same tune

covid doesn't kill enough people to be relevant,

we are either in a panic for what could happen or we are panicing far to much over somthing insignificant

Coronavirus deaths ARE driving deaths. Since they said that you can call just about any death a Covid death, they are DRIVING the Covid deaths up... driving deaths.

according to this animation on shity cnn

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/world/coronavirus-global-death-toll-300000-intl/index.html

betweeen 22. january and 14 may which is today 301.937 people died in 113 days https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=22&m1=01&y1=2020&d2=14&m2=05&y2=2020

thats

301'937/113 = 2'672 people per day

as a rate for a planet with a population around 7.8 billion,

this is a daily death rate of

2672/7800= 0.34 daily deaths per million

now considering that a nation like the usa has 200 traffic deaths per day with a population of 320.000 million people
thats

200/320 = 0.625 daily deaths per million

this means corona kills around half as many people per day as the traffic of an industrialised nation like the usa.

thats not much.