Posted on 04/12/2020 3:07:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Governor Newsom’s shelter-in-place order and similar orders at the jurisdictional scale had a profound effect on daily travel in California, with >20 - 50% reductions found across select highways. This in turn seems to have resulted in a ~50% reduction in total collisions and injury/fatal accidents. This unintended benefit of the orders was primarily for drivers and passengers. There was no detectable reduction in impacts to large animals reported by the CHP on state highways and certain major roads. We appreciate the critical attention to detail and complete incident reporting by the CHP and look forward to increased support for their reporting by the state government.
Traffic fatalities on U.S. roads reached an estimated 40,000 in 2018, the third year in a row in which at least that many people died in vehicle crashes, according to figures from the National Safety Council.
So indeed, if this national quarantine continues, we could be saving 20,000 lives per year, by keeping them off the highways. But many other questions remain unanwered.
How many additional lives will be lost by people becoming less healthy? Has this quarantine actually reduced the number of Covid-19 and flu cases?
The fact is, the CDC has not changed it's flu season estimates at all, and continues to show more flu deaths than Covid-19 deaths.
It is! Our tiny little female (fixed!) barn cat OWNS our Beagle, LOL!
I still miss our last cat...like an oversized Munchkin with legs not quite as short and a 16 lb muscular body..pure black and his face would disappear when he closed his eyes....Wife named him "Bubba" to suit the southern meme but he was known as "The Bubber"
If it doesn’t cost multi trillions of dollars, and nearly throw the country into a recession, if not depression, than its not worth it.
Pets add so much to our lives. :)
Amen to that...
Surely you aren't suggesting people should actually walk?
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