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To put it in perspective, 6k deaths in a year are about two orders of magnitude lower than covid deaths in 2020. Heart disease similarly claims some 600k+ lives

• Karrot_Kream 5y ago
  These are all preventable deaths, especially in a rich country like the US. We just need to look at similarly wealthy Western European countries and note how much lower their traffic fatalities are. This isn't some "necessary to do business" kind of thing or some debate between theory and practice; there are actual governments right now that avoid these deaths. Americans pay a lot in taxes to support roads, which are taxes that Americans that don't drive see very little of (especially since most of the federal funding goes to match Interstate highway projects). If the carless need to pay into a system they receive minimal benefits from only to also experience much higher risk for injury and higher risks of death, while other wealthy developed governments do not have such problems, then it seems silly to continue on the track we're on now.