100 per day in the US alone in 2018.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...

The parent was talking about Germany. In the US we're currently at 2-3k coronavirus deaths so still much larger than auto deaths.

Ok, that's fair. I interpreted "we" from moduspol as "we as a society" but I agree that the German numbers are more relevant here.

(Incidentally, using traffic death numbers as a baseline for a rate of fatalities we should accept is bad anyway because those numbers are also higher than we should tolerate, IMO.)

No, Germany had 3100 deaths due to traffic in the whole year 2019. Less than 10 per day.

Actually, a little more.

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

38,000 a year ~= 104 / day

More than 300 people die every day from preventable causes in Germany, excluding Covid-19.

(based on 120,000 preventable deaths in 2016: https://www.oecd.org/germany/health-at-a-glance-germany-EN.p... )