I’m thinking this has been going on “all the time” and Big Media has just now been given the command the past few weeks to report EVERY SHOOTING.
You never read about more than two or three babies in America left in hot cars every year but there are like twenty or thirty.....
If it’s a high profile baby, then you’ll hear about each and every one of them for a few weeks. It’s called “being on the radar”. Then the next big story draws attention away from baby stories, and the public assumes they’ve stopped happening. Nope, the background level is still there, just not getting reported. One thing that constantly amazes me about following public policy is the number of people who appear at meetings expressing the assumption that just because they’re not aware of something it’s never happened before.