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To: Balding_Eagle

It will be interesting to compare data year over year. I would suspect suicides, domestic violence other deaths to be up this year. Traffic fatalities should be way down, as well as homicides aside from domestic violence. Due to the social distancing, increased awareness of handwashing, closed schools and businesses, overall death from all infectious diseases may be down.

As an aside, I keep seeing people speak in disgust about Trump or others weighing economics vs lives, but governments do this all the time, even when the data is far cleaner.
One example: it is widely known that for every 5MPH increase of the traffic speed, traffic deaths are expected to go up by 8.5%. Knowing this, some governments still increase or keep speed limits higher.


6 posted on 03/28/2020 3:11:31 PM PDT by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative
About the German autobahns...

"In sections of the motorway system without speed limit it is common to be overtaken by cars or motorcycles travelling over 200 km/h (125 mph)."

I can attest to that. And they don't use their horns...they flash their lights when they tear ass past you like you are standing still.

18 posted on 03/28/2020 3:37:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: USA Conservative

“More People Have Died From Suicide In One County Than People Have From The Coronavirus In The Entire State...”

More people have probably died from autoerotic asphyxiation.


51 posted on 03/28/2020 6:28:21 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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