Too damn right, the road deaths are worse, but policy ignores them !Originally Posted by bkkguy
Of the people I know who died with covid, one was dying anyway, caught covid in one of our NHS hospitals and is hence recorded as a covid death. The other was 94. Looking at the UK stats, this common.
Meanwhile the average age of road traffic deaths is likely to be well under 40.
Am not sure about other members, but I'd rather die a few weeks early from covid than have died in my 20s, 30s or 40s in a traffic accident.
Then the Thai road traffic deaths are every year. Unless there's a radical change in government policy, it will be 20,000 per year in 2030, whilst covid might be a distant memory.
Then, to cut the road traffic deaths requires much less damaging interventions, with almost no economic side effects.
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