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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by daveFNbuck on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:11PM (#23260250)
The drivers aren't necessarily more dangerous. They might just be driving more dangerously with less traffic. It's easier to die going 80 on the freeway than if you're stuck in gridlock.

I think we can at least agree that the statement "the roads are safer" is false.

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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by annot888888 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:35PM (#23260668)
Rush hour isn’t gridlock everywhere

Plenty of places are increased traffic but not bumper to bumper

This is all rounding numbers that have been rounded already to smooth out uniqueness of a given locale

Water is wet level conclusion that using math correctly by math rules to debate a topic that’s locally unique and out of view for people in far flung regions.

My individual odds of dying in an accident haven’t changed much. Safer or worse in some aggregate measure isn’t that useful to me today or tomorrow. Still gonna do as I do.

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