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And how does it compare to deaths related to automobile accidents ?

• Der_Einzige 7y ago
  Those accidents are no basically longer happening because there are so few cars on the road. Our response to this also solved auto accidents. You should be asking "how does this compare to causes of death related to poverty"
  • brianwawok 7y ago
    Where is this no car traffic happening? Where I am, I don’t see less car traffic. We are moderate in terms of US states for cases. We are told to only leave the house for urgent matters. But the chic-fil-a drive through line is 45 cars deep.
• nabla9 7y ago
  Automobile accidents are order of magnitude smaller risk. In the US automobiles kill roughly the same amount of people annually as year in the Vietnam war. Something like 30k+ annually. You can actually subtract some car deaths from covid deaths because there is less traffic. 9/11 or terrorism in general so low risks that it's quite clear that responding for terrorism with conventional war and trillions of dollars is insane.
  • logicchains 7y ago
    What about after accounting for life years lost? Young people are most likely to die in auto accidents, and they may have 50-60 years of expected life left, whereas the majority of deaths from coronavirus would be people who have way fewer years left.
• gamblor956 7y ago
  Not relevant. There are trillions of vehicle trips each year. In 2018, only 36,560 deaths. The likelihood of a fatal car accident is a less than 1% of 1% of 1%. There have been only a few hundred thousand cases of COVID19 so far, and thousands of deaths. The fatality rate is many magnitudes greater.