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April 12th 20, 04:53 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Eric Greenwell[_4_]
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What have we learned from all this?
wrote on 4/11/2020 8:30 AM:
On Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 12:00:24 AM UTC-4, wrote:
In 2018, we were killing, by average, 3670 people DAILY in car wrecks in the US. I can't imagine we've cut that in half, but with the StayAtHome mandates, it likely has dropped this month.
Really? 3670 times 365 means we killed well over a million
people on the roads in 2018. You'd think I'd remember that.
Jim Beckman
Indeed. The yearly count is around 35,000/year, or about 100/day.
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