Posted on 04/12/2020 3:07:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Governor Newsom’s shelter-in-place order and similar orders at the jurisdictional scale had a profound effect on daily travel in California, with >20 - 50% reductions found across select highways. This in turn seems to have resulted in a ~50% reduction in total collisions and injury/fatal accidents. This unintended benefit of the orders was primarily for drivers and passengers. There was no detectable reduction in impacts to large animals reported by the CHP on state highways and certain major roads. We appreciate the critical attention to detail and complete incident reporting by the CHP and look forward to increased support for their reporting by the state government.
Traffic fatalities on U.S. roads reached an estimated 40,000 in 2018, the third year in a row in which at least that many people died in vehicle crashes, according to figures from the National Safety Council.
So indeed, if this national quarantine continues, we could be saving 20,000 lives per year, by keeping them off the highways. But many other questions remain unanwered.
How many additional lives will be lost by people becoming less healthy? Has this quarantine actually reduced the number of Covid-19 and flu cases?
The fact is, the CDC has not changed it's flu season estimates at all, and continues to show more flu deaths than Covid-19 deaths.
WUT? Butt, butt, butt................ How much did that cost us?
Frankly, water and air pollution in places that were feeling it have cleared up.
In Cancun, there have peen pictures of sharks cavorting in the waves at the shoreline.
“The FACT is, the CDC has not changed it’s flu season estimates at all, and continues to show more flu deaths than Covid-19 deaths.”
I’m so excited that the CDC and ‘our betters’ will be locking us all up at the first sign of the SNIFFLES next Fall.
Grrrr!
Get America back to work, Mr. President!
“In Cancun, there have peen pictures of sharks cavorting in the waves at the shoreline.”
I’ve seen dogs and cats living together, first hand! ;)
Fewer cocaine-snorting Hollywood celebs and drunk illegals crashing into other people.
Or, it could be they’re all listed now as COVID-19 deaths...
Headline on the AARP web page - DRIVERS WHO STAY HOME HAVE FEWER ACCIDENTS
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Thanks, Brown Deer.
The auto insurance companies wink and nod, as they still collect full pop premiums/payments, even though most people have reduced their driving about 90 percent.
Mandate everyone use Public Transportation and KUNG FLU Deaths will double. See how that works?
USAA is doing a kickback on auto insurance.
Yep. Got my letter last week. USAA is awesome.
Wait until all the new alcoholics start driving again.
Best - Insurance - Company - Period.
As a few others are predicting a rise in the “birth rate” in about 9 months. Curiouser, curiouser and curiouser! :^}
OF COURSE there’s been a reduction, DUH! If you reduced traffic 100%, you’d see a 100% reduction in accidents and fatalaties. Hello, Captain Obvious!
(Don’t tell the CHP that 2+2=3+1; we might have to endure another one of their tedious reports.)
It’s clear President Trump threw the body shop workers to the wolves.
+. Said that to a friend last week. Body shops hard hit.
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