RTA Deaths V CV19

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Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on roadways around the world.
Every day, almost 3,700 people are killed globally in road traffic crashes.. More than half of those killed are pedestrians, motorcyclists, and cyclists.
Road traffic injuries are estimated to be the eighth leading cause of death globally for all age groups and the leading cause of death for children and young people 5–29 years of age. More people now die in road traffic crashes than from HIV/AIDS.

But no-one is demanding we close down roads and stop people driving cars. We are not causing global economic meltdown because thousands of people die in car accidents.

Compare and contrast as we used to be instructed in school....

Firstly your world wide deathcoubt could easily be country wide.

Secondly if you are involved in a road traffic accident, even just a minor one, that wont suddenly mean anyone you come in contact with for the next 10 days will suddenly also be at serious risk of being involved in a potentially road traffic accident.

Potentially fatal

I despair of people who don't understand science, including how disease vectors work and why they matter, and who misinterpret statistics

For anyone who somehow missed this: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-researchers-model-likely-impact/

Sorry I didnt realise RTAs were highly contagious

Why not look up exponential growth rates before posting such tripe?
Idiot

I'm sorry but this just sounds ignorant. Our NHS is already at capacity and operating at a level that already accounts for things like road accidents so adding a large influx of patients needing critical care will overwhelm it. They are putting measures in please to spread this out as much as possible so it doesn't collapse. This has been examined repeatedly and I honestly don't know why anyone doesn't get it now. 3000 people have died in Italy in the last few weeks and their medical staff are completely over worked and overwhelmed.

Cars and other vehicles serve a useful function, and one car crash doesn't result in an exponential increase in car crashes. Do you understand what an R0 >2 means, OP?

Quoting statistics without understanding maths (and a few other things) isn't very clever.

In any case, it's simply not true that everyone accepts road deaths as inevitable. Governments and local authorities are constantly looking for ways to make our roads safer. Car manufacturers have made huge advances which mean fewer people die in crashes. My dh works in road safety, the deaths on the road in our county are a quarter what they were when he started, despite the higher number of cars.

Welcome to Mumnsnet, OP. You’ve made the classic rookie mistake of thinking that your audience is a bit thick. This isn’t the local Facebook group.

You clearly misunderstood in school.

The only people who say shit like this are those who can't do basic maths.

Wow, OP, that’s probably one of the most bonkers posts I’ve read today.
Please tell me you’re just having a laugh and you’re not really that monumentally stupid?

I sincerely wish from the bottom of my heart that this time next year we can still say that the number of people dead from CV is less than the average annual RTA fatalities.

But I don't think it will be true.

This isn't a statistics game, OP.

This isn't accident at a zebra crossing causing X amount of deaths that you can compare to CV 'X' amount of deaths - this is a pandemic caused by an unknown, new disease that is having huge impacts on the global economy and daily life, which affects us all individually.

You can't be so narrow minded that you can't see the possible consequences for an already over-stretched NHS system as well as a severe recession?

It's not even an original thought, we had a very similar one last week.