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minus-square@rcbrklink3•2 years agoCovid panic? More people driving to avoid catching covid on public transport, thus killing more people on the roads? Taking 2019’s US road toll stats as a baseline, 2020+2021’s “excess” road toll was between 5 and 6 million extra people. The US covid death toll for 2020+2021+2022 is about 1 million people. Please note this is just conjecture – correlation is not causation, etc. Going by the stats here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country
Covid panic? More people driving to avoid catching covid on public transport, thus killing more people on the roads?
Taking 2019’s US road toll stats as a baseline, 2020+2021’s “excess” road toll was between 5 and 6 million extra people.
The US covid death toll for 2020+2021+2022 is about 1 million people.
Please note this is just conjecture – correlation is not causation, etc.
Going by the stats here: