You guys are the ones bringing up car crashes 20 times a day as though no statistics on it are available and we should be no more worried about this pandemic than we are about car crashes. Car crashes have never brought down our health care system, but the CDC is already advising doctors that they might have to use makeshift PPE like handkerchiefs because we are running out of masks. C'mon, man!
Then I post some statistics about your argument over a 70 year period and you argue that I'm cherry picking and that it is a bad analogy? My whole point is that it is an idiotic comparison! This is the horse you are beating.
Car crashes and coronavirus are only related in cases where, like what is happening in Italy right now, a crash crash patient who otherwise could be saved shows up at a hospital overwhelmed with corona patients and then can't get the help they need and dies. That death doesn't list under corona, but the patient would have been alive in a no corona health system.
Another reason this analogy is stupid is that we DO care about car crashes and the trauma they cause. The amount of scientist and engineering hours spent making cars safer is astronomical. We are at the beginning of this crisis and even the car manufacturers are starting to use their knowledge to help us out of this situation where we are so far behind the curve.
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This is a time for all Americans to come together and do what we have done so many times in the past: rise to the occasion.