It’s getting worse. People are worried it will get much worse. It can and probably will.

The push for 55 (in 1973) was not about safety, but fuel economy.
Reduction in highway fatalities was a bonus.

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I’d also ask why only one week was used and where the numbers for that one week came from.

In 2020 there were 38,680 auto deaths.

In 2020 there were 375,000 COVID deaths according to the CDC. It was the third leading cause of death in the US. In one year the age-adjusted death rate jumped almost 16% following almost continuous decline since the turn of the 19th century. Also, yesterday there were a reported 429 deaths that day alone, not sure where 276 deaths for the entire week comes from.

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Mmmmm

In the name of public health!

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I’ll not contest the numbers given, nor you, but simply state the obvious.

That is the problem entirely.

Exampled deaths from autos, and overdoses for the most part happen outside the hospital environment; I mean they arrive dead already, or close to it.
Now, covid deaths occurr mostly in a hospital setting after days of taking up a bed there.
Though the number that die from covid seems low by direct comparison; no death should be marginalized, the volume of those that survive covid, in said hospital setting, require many days of taking up bed space there to do so.
In short drug overdoses, and auto deaths do not completely shut down entire regions of hospitals, but covid does, and is.
Like a hotel, once a hospital has no vacancy, there is no vacancy!
Covid overwhelms entire medical systems, and collapses them by the volume of sick being treated, not by death.
You might not die from covid, but if you have a heart attack, and need timely surgery guess what?
No vacancy…
Most hospitals rely on one or several larger hospitals to perform more complex medical procedures.
When those larger hospitals are full, guess what?
No procedures get done… anywhere…
Auto accidents, or overdoses do not take up hospital beds to the point of collapse.
But covid does, and is now.
Lousiana is in bigly’ trouble.
It’s not a death rate only, it is a bed capacity issue, as well as death rate.
Wake up…
It’s real.

Righties will still refuse to wear masks if there are 50,000 cases a day. There is no pleasing them. Their goal is the downfall of Biden and our beloved nation in order to please trump.

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And how about the “chickens coming home to roost” - hospital closures in red states that refused expansion of medicaid?

Got real quiet hunh’?

The truth few are talking about is trying to keep new strains of variants out of the country. If not this game of whack a variant will never end, it will continue new variant mask up shut business economy weakens over and over.

The delta variant accounts for 90% of all new viruses basically covid was on the verge of being beaten in the states before the way more highly contagious version of covid-19 delta brought in. If it does whatever virus in history has done it will keep getting smarter and mutating until the vaccine isn’t effective in it’s current form. According to the CDC we are possibly 3-4 mutations away from the virus bypassing the vaccine.

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No it won’t.

There are enough vaccinations and antibodies to prevent another crisis.

This is a level that we can be safe with minimal intrusion on individual liberty.

Biden border policy is the driver of the Covid lapse.

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Emergency rooms are getting crowded already and it can easily get much worse. Only half the population is vaccinated where I live and many other states in similar status. The way Delta is going, half is not nearly enough.

A factor perhaps. Easy to say it’s the driver but the numbers and geographic spread are not there.

Well that was an honest statistical observation. /sarcasm

What do you mean by “geographic spread”?

Places where illegals don’t much go to also getting covid spikes.

How do you know where they are being sent, not choosing to go? Do you have a list of all the flights carrying them?

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Such as?

I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a state illegals don’t go to much.

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You think illegals are causing the surge in Kenniwick Oregon?

Preventable.

Allan