*Here's a typically myopic article in Car and Driver—typical not of Car and Driver,* *but of the West's entire "news" juggernaut—about the **rise in US traffic deaths this * *year. Note the "reasons" given in the bolded bit below: **"more risky behavior," and * *"a higher likelihood of drugs or alcohol being involved."*
*Well, yeah; but why would folks be driving more recklessly, and likelier to drink* *and/or get high? Could, say, the lockdowns, and the crash of the economy, have* *anything to do with it?* *And—the dog that isn't barking here—what about the face masks **worn, insanely, * *by so many drivers? You've got a lot of people driving masked, **including many * *old people; so why assume it couldn't possibly have anything **to do with this* *grim trend? People ran a piece last summer on a masked driver in New Jersey * *who **passed out at the wheel, and drove into a tree. It was a "human interest" story* *in People, and that's all. It should have sparked some journalistic interest in the * *likelihood that masking at the wheel has had disastrous consequences; but that's* *unlikely with the sort of "journalism" practiced in the USA, and not just here. * *The NJ **police department finding that the driver had been masked, and * *lost * *consciousness because of it, was pressured into issuing a statement that they * *were not **qualified to say so, that he could have passed out for all sorts of reasons. * *That tells you how repressive this mask propaganda is; and how our "journalists"* *have been so addled by it that they can't even imagine that this rise in traffic deaths* *could be related to the psychopathic measures used to "keep us safe."* *MCM* 2019 U.S. Traffic Deaths Lowest Since 2014, but 2020 Numbers Aren't Looking Good In the COVID-19 era, fatal accident percentages are up this year despite the smaller number of vehicles on the roads, NHTSA's latest data shows. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34240145/2019-2020-traffic-deaths-coronavirus/ BY SEBASTIAN BLANCO <https://www.caranddriver.com/author/223337/sebastian-blanco/> OCT 1, 2020 - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) offers up another reason we need to get rid of COVID-19 <https://www.caranddriver.com/coronavirus/>: reckless driving is up, and causing more deaths. - 2019 was the third year in a row with fewer traffic fatalities <https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813021> than the one before, but NHTSA's preliminary data <https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2019-fatality-data-traffic-deaths-2020-q2-projections> for 2020 suggests more deaths per miles traveled, even with fewer cars on the road. - *NHTSA said the reasons include more risky behavior, like an increase in speeding and a lower rate of seatbelt use, as well as a higher likelihood of drugs or alcohol being involved.* There's good news and really bad news in a batch of reports <https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813021>released today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) focusing on motor-vehicle traffic fatalities in 2019 and the first half of 2020. The good news is that, overall, roads were safer in 2019 than 2018, continuing a three-year trend that started in 2017. The really bad news is that, if the agency's early estimates bear out, U.S. roads were more dangerous in the second quarter of 2020 than they have been in years. *Click on the link for the rest.* --- Support News from Underground: http://bit.ly/NFUSupport You received this email because you are subscribed to News from Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=pIdjNUgiG2h8yxbhC54SSy4SEskAoEMs For archives, please go to: http://archives.simplelists.com/nfu
