An Increase in Traffic Deaths

Traffic deaths in the US are up since 2019, and experts are as clueless about the possible cause of this as they are about swamped emergency rooms. The year 2019 is somehow pivotal, and it's a mystery why this is so. Yet again, the obvious is either ignored or dismissed as irrelevant.

We're told that lockdowns cannot have had anything to do with it, because fewer people driving should have caused the numbers to go down. Yet the numbers went up when lockdowns came into effect, and the numbers remained high when the lockdowns were rolled back.

People driving with their masks on isn't mentioned. The fact that masks mist up people's glasses and limit oxygen supply is apparently irrelevant. Vaccines aren't mentioned either. Presumably because they were administered in 2021. But traffic deaths remain high, and may end up higher than the numbers for 2020.

Politicians and their minions are quick to rule out any connection between the rise in traffic deaths and the actions taken in response to the virus. Instead, they declare the situation a pandemic of traffic crashes, implying by this that it's no less sever and mysterious. What is in reality a relatively modest increase in traffic deaths is made into an emergency. The solution to the problem is as always more rules and regulations. The fact that Germany has some of the worlds lowest rates of traffic deaths despite having some of the most liberal traffic laws is ignored.

There are freeways in Germany that have no speed limit, and this is not a problem, so we can safely conclude that the number of deaths in US traffic has nothing to do with a lack of rules. Something else is at fault, and the uptick in deaths since 2019 is almost certainly due to lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccines. Here are some possible causes off the top of my head:

• Suicides are up due to lockdowns. Some of these are presumably traffic related.
• Restrictions on air travel means more long distance driving for people who'd rather fly.
• Masks limit vision and oxygen flow. Errors are made by masked drivers.
• Vaccines causes people to faint or drop dead while behind the wheel.

An Autobahn in Lehrte, near Hanover, Germany

By Jochen Teufel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link