I wonder how many fewer deaths there will be this year from less car accidents?

[Quixote1818]

How strange it is to think that there are people who will be alive in six months because they were in their house sheltering in place instead of on the highway in an accident and they will never know how their fortunes were changed.

I had just posted how oddly the death rate drops during recessions because of fewer car accidents and heart attacks. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213195331 You have much of the world at like 30% on the roads compared to normal. Just in the US about 100 people die a day in car accidents (not including the several thousand who are seriously injured). I am guessing that between 3 and 4 thousand will be saved and around 35,000 fewer injured if this goes on for two months and lot more if traffic stays reduced even after much of this is lifted.

https://www.driverknowledge.com/car-accident-statistics/

PS. Not to mention perhaps millions who may be saved from the virus because people sheltered in place!

[jojog]

1. Or air pollution. nt

[jojog]

2. Or school shootings. nt

[Turbineguy]

3. Yeah.

We need more Presidents like trump.

[Sedona]

4. Mr Sedona and I contemplated a motorcycle ride yesterday.

It was a beautiful day in North Georgia. The cost benefit analysis of the enjoyment of the ride against the chances of ending up in an overwhelmed Metro Atlanta emergency room ended the contemplation.

[jimfields33]

5. On the flip side, no exercise

Weights will go up and anxiety will skyrocket. Health will be a concern more then just the virus.

[HotTeaBag]

8. Yep, the moment the gyms closed we bought some weights and a treadmill

now almost impossible to find.

But we're also lucky that here in New Jersey (so far) the Governor has decided to keep parks open so we go to the larger ones that are more heavily forested and go on hikes as much as possible and run into very, very few people.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Maybe more people

will discover the virtue of home cooking, and eat less fat, salt and sugar than they've been getting from restaurant meals. Hopefully, it's a skill set that will stick with them, and be passed on to their children.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Probably a lot more domestic violence,

with people stuck at home with each other.

[treestar]

7. less flu too

the social distancing should cut back on any other communicable disease too.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. After What I Saw Today, None

I know, just one thing, but...
I'm doing something on line & needed info from my wife.
Didn't realize she left for store.
I needed to go to pharmacy anyway, so I went to grocer and caught up with her. Going to follow her home, unload groceries and go to drug store.
She pulls out of parking lot with no car coming in either direction. As she's getting to around 30 (limit is 35) cars comes flying up behind her, lays on the horn, pulls into other lane with car exiting a carry out place! Speeds up (yep) to dodge the car in his lane ( not his, really) and roars past.
Looking ahead, he passed another car on a curved bridge with 4 foot walls to protect pedestrians.
Too many of these "all about me" drivers still on the road.