Coronovirus Armaggendon V Carmoggeddon

[Gromit]

January 2020 in UK

Coronovirus deaths = 0
Car Accident deaths = 148.

Coronovirus victims = 9
Car accident victims = 15,000

Just saying.

[Fitzer]

Apples/Oranges. False equivalence

[bednobs]

you know this is the news section, right?

[Fitzer]

Spanish flu post 1st World War, 228,000 deaths, deaths from car accidents minimal. Both sets of numbers and both pointless comparisons.

[ToraToraTora]

"just saying" - what are you saying? we should ignore the virus and hope it goes away based on statistics? The figures would be a lot higher if we did nowt. Perhaps you could bestow the wisdom of the Gromit on us!

[sevenOP]

Steady Gromit, you're diluting fear porn Central.

[Peter Pedant]

Chinee ambassador was saying just that a few days ago

" Hey you round-eyes, you run over loadda people and not give toss!"

the Peking hospitals are stuffed with the dead and dying that only they know about apparently

[Gromit]

Fitzer,

Estimates of Spanish Flu deaths vary between 20 and 50 million world wide.
Coronavirus has killed 10,500. Not the best comparison. More people die crossing the street every day.

[jno]

and that's not counting the ones who die from pollution, which, like corona virus, is airborne.

[Gromit]

Jno,
Google Air Pollution deaths and it says 4.6million.

Perhaps all car drivers should be locked up in quarantine to ally DailyMail fears.p?

[jno]

in London, it's not so much the cars as the Ubers and Prime deliveries

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/11/how-london-got-rid-of-private-cars-and-grew-more-congested-than-ever

[sevenOP]

"the Peking hospitals are stuffed with the dead and dying that only they know about apparently"

big chink in your factual armour PP

Is this killer Air Pollution one aspect of the 'Invisible Hand' ?

[Khandro]

I think the Corbynvirus may be a bigger threat.

[Mozz71]

Your Answer...I'm not saying this thread is pointless, but I had to check if Gulliver had started it.

[jim360]

Would have been more appropriate in response to TTT's latest self-driving car thread. I'm guessing this is a number-crunch in latest Squalid Little Rag?

[sevenOP]

@echo on Khandro.

[ToraToraTora]

are you just playing with the numbers gromit? what are you saying? that the world should do nothing? Do you not think the measures taken so far have kept it to a relatively small amount of cases? At the moment you're sounding like TVI.

[douglas9401]

I suppose all nine were hoyed into a rickshaw and transported to hospital instead of one of those nasty, noisy, smelly polluting emergency vehicles.

You don't like cars, we get it.

[sevenOP]

IF true, Pollution Central )¦¬[

https://www.windy.com/-SO2-mass-so2sm?so2sm,33.852,106.963,5

[ichkeria]

Surely a better comparison might be
"fear of coronavirus"
versus
"global warming? conspiracy theory!"

On the other hand, that doesn't mean we do nothing about the first.
It is an interesting contrast, though.