Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Torillian]

EricHiggin said:

Torillian said:

the reason traffic deaths aren't thought of as a pandemic is because they aren't contagious (or even if you're going to make a stupid analogy between car accidents and getting others sick it's not contagious in nearly the same way). Also traffic accidents kill an order of magnitude less people, so there's that. 

Driving is just as 'contagious' as socializing. The accidents themselves aren't exactly contagious, just like how covid isn't contagious simply on it's own.

Traffic accidents take place everywhere since vehicles have spread worldwide. Who decides how many deaths are reasonable? Who decides if it's news worthy? What's that matter if none of them are seen as trustworthy?

I'm going to need some kind of proof that driving accidents are as contagious as a respiratory disease that has caused a pandemic and killed 316,000 people in America alone in just 9 months.