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Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases by paulgb on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:30AM (#23132845)
100 per day in the US alone in 2018.

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

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Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases by alexilliamson on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:40AM (#23132954)
The parent was talking about Germany. In the US we're currently at 2-3k coronavirus deaths so still much larger than auto deaths.
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases by paulgb on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:49AM (#23133031)
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.)

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