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Quarantine is Reducing Traffic Deaths
Road Ecology Center - UC Davis ^ | 4/1/2020 | Fraser Shilling

Posted on 04/12/2020 3:07:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer

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To: Brown Deer

It’s amazing.

If people don’t drive, there won’t be any traffic accidents.

I think I see a trend here. /sarc


21 posted on 04/12/2020 3:42:25 PM PDT by llevrok (Avoid the virus. Don't touch strange knobs.)
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To: dragnet2

Geico sent a letter and said they were giving an immediate 25% discount for the next cou0le months.


22 posted on 04/12/2020 3:43:40 PM PDT by cyclotic (A vote for Democrats is a vote for lower traffic volumes)
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To: Brown Deer; All
Our insurance company is giving us a 15% refund on two months of our auto premium. With a pickup, a newish van, and a small SUV vehicle, that would be nice.


23 posted on 04/12/2020 3:44:37 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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To: Brown Deer

It has also drastically reduced out Constitutional freedoms.

JoMa


24 posted on 04/12/2020 3:44:55 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Brown Deer

An unlooked for blessing but I suppose they can just keep us locked down forever since the fact is fewer of us die when we are locked down.

Quarantine during the entire flu season would reduce flu deaths too. I don’t deny it.

I deny that it is worth the loss in freedoms. I also assert that deaths of despair go up. We are social beings. We need to be productive. We need personal liberty.


25 posted on 04/12/2020 3:47:59 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: Brown Deer

In other news, obesity is way down in North Korea and Venezuela.


26 posted on 04/12/2020 3:50:27 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Brown Deer

Ha! Quarentine is reducing everything except snacking, drinking and binge watching.


27 posted on 04/12/2020 3:53:47 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (I'm essential!)
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To: Brown Deer

I cant wait for things to return to normal.


28 posted on 04/12/2020 3:58:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: cyclotic

They should, so did several other insurance carriers.

But Progressive, the company that promotes homosexuals, has not done so.


29 posted on 04/12/2020 4:07:36 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Brown Deer

Just think of how many lives will be saved when millions of people have their cars repossessed because they cant make the car payment because they lost their jobs.


30 posted on 04/12/2020 4:10:14 PM PDT by Trumpnado2016 (Welcome to Trump World.)
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To: Larry Lucido; Red in Blue PA; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; KC_Lion; Lil Flower; CopperTop
And fewer parking space arguments too.


31 posted on 04/12/2020 4:26:11 PM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: Brown Deer

We could finish the year with an overall death rate BELOW normal.


32 posted on 04/12/2020 4:28:41 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Brown Deer

Don’t effin go there, Newsom. Yeah, less cars on the road = less traffic accidents. Duh.

BUT OUR DRIVING ALONE IN GAS BURNING VEHICLES HAS SAVED OUR LIVES.

Californians don’t want to live on top of each other in high rises and travel around in stuffed subways! Now that we learn how viruses travel, we would rather enjoy our minimum germ car culture and long commutes. Especially if you take the 405 to the 101 and head west to Topanga if it’s not jahmmed.


33 posted on 04/12/2020 4:33:07 PM PDT by Yaelle
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Ask for reduced insurance rates for COVID-19 epidemic.


34 posted on 04/12/2020 4:36:33 PM PDT by Amendment10
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So if no one is driving, who is moving the cars on alternate days?


35 posted on 04/12/2020 4:37:39 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Brown Deer

And Mussolini made the trains run on time.


36 posted on 04/12/2020 4:43:13 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose)
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To: Brown Deer
How many additional lives will be lost by people becoming less healthy?

Nobody is factoring in all the myriad health problems likely to be caused by the isolation of this lockdown:
* Long-term depression, loss of self-esteem due to inability to work
* Suicide due to loss of job and income
* Murder and armed robbery due to loss of job and income (or crooks taking advantage of the situation).

37 posted on 04/12/2020 4:54:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Brown Deer

And for the thousands of women whom found a lump in their breast in the last month but can’t get a Dr appointment because of CV.........does the Author Fraser Shilling think the delayed treatment will increase Breast cancer rates over the next couple of years? And so on and so forth for many other ailments not being seen by Dr. currently. What a dumb fluck.


38 posted on 04/12/2020 5:20:46 PM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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To: Brown Deer

Well... DUH!


39 posted on 04/12/2020 6:20:13 PM PDT by upchuck (Dan Bongino: The Democrats are The Virus)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Wow! It must be a country-wide phenomenon...I’ve seen it too...I know a cat that “owns” 2 Pit Bulls...


40 posted on 04/13/2020 4:11:00 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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