That “similar number of people” still die despite the enormous amount of work that goes in to road death reduction! We are doing things, and we are affecting th

That “similar number of people” still die despite the enormous amount of work that goes in to road death reduction! We are doing things, and we are affecting the road toll. A quick look at Australia shows that from the worst years, 1970s, where ~3,500 died a year, we’re now down to ~1,200. That’s a 3x reduction because we did something. (Airbags, improved car design, improved road design, improved compliance, etc.) If only we had some sort of analogue for doing something vs. not doing something re: COVID. Oh wait, we do. - Number of Australians dead: 908. - Population adjusted, 13.1x: 12,000. - Number of Americans dead: 298,000. That’s 25x as many. We did something, America didn’t. Spotting a pattern?