“Since Covid, we saw this incredible increase in distracted driving,” says Ryan McMahon, senior vice president of strategy for Cambridge Mobile Telematics. “You could almost track it by the day schools started to shut down.”
Key word "almost."
Auto accidents and fatalities have been rising since 2014 as a result of coordinated leftist and governmental attacks against law and order, amplified after St. George's martyrdom in 2020, which Mr. McMahon from the quotation above, deliberately avoids.
Under Biden, NHTSA has quit general reporting of traffic fatalities by race, although the granular data is still there. See for example, Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities For the First Half (January–June) of 2023, which has nothing on race, although black auto deaths were up significantly from the prior year. From what I have reviewed, from 2020 black traffic fatalities were up 50% over 2015 totals compared with an increase of 11% for whites and 11% overall. 2020 fatalities were up from 2019 by 23% for blacks and 3.7% for whites. It wasn't the shutdown.
Anecdotally, I distinctly recall a conversation with an insurance rep in March of 2020, when I called in to report that my wife's car was no longer being used for commuting. I asked the agent if she was enjoying a slow-down in business, and she laughed at me, saying, "It's never been busier: people are driving crazy."
The shutdown certainly impacted driver behavior, but the underlying cause of your higher insurance premiums is anti-police hysteria and victim privilege mentality.
But it wasn't until sixteen years later that he decided to make recognition of LGBT people the focus of his ministry. The turning point was the death of 49 people on June 12, 2016 at "Pulse", a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
You'd think this event would make him want to oppose Islam, not promote sodomy.
Looks like St. Patrick’s priests have managed to widen the gate, enlarge the eye of the needle, divide the Kingdom against itself, make fishermen keep the bad with the good fish, fertilize rocky places and gardens of thorns, proclaim the Gospel for those who have poor ears and bad eyes, and let the sheep wander wherever they like.