Pedestrian deaths aren't evenly distributed, they concentrate among the elderly, disabled, and impoverished. Our covid response forced us to make explicit some

Pedestrian deaths aren't evenly distributed, they concentrate among the elderly, disabled, and impoverished. Our covid response forced us to make explicit some parts of our social agreement that were not usually stated outright before. Covid deaths also concentrated among exactly those groups. We established outright that harms to these groups are an acceptable cost for convenience to the rest. It's not a large leap for people to apply this to their driving behavior, even unconsciously. There is also the fact that covid isn't the only thing that happened in 2020. Since that summer's protests the police in my city have been on open but unacknowledged soft strike. They only take actions that are personally fulfilling to them individually, which certainly isn't traffic enforcement.