JC AGAIN

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Yesterday, an article published by the Australian Broadcast Company caught my eye, headlined “A significant increase in death rates on roads around the country has experts worried

http://tinyurl.com/mv9acf93

Experts! Presumably these newly-worried experts are the same ones who constantly fretted about covid overwhelming hospitals during the pandemic. According to the story, pre-pandemic Australia enjoyed a long, steady reduction in car crash deaths.

But that’s all history now, mate; there’s a whole new epidemic going on, an epidemic of crumpled metal:

“We can’t ignore the facts; we are seeing a significant increase in death rates around the country,” Dr Crozier said. “The cumulative effect of 100 dead every month, and 100 hospitalised every day — it’s an epidemic. A tragic epidemic.”
For much of the past four decades, Australia made steady progress on the road toll — from 2,800 people died in road accidents in 1989 (down) to 1,094 by October 2020. But as the nation emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the road toll started to increase.
“What we’re seeing around the country in pretty much every state and territory is the numbers are going up instead of down. And that’s been happening for the last few years,” said Ingrid Johnston, CEO of the Australasian College of Road Safety.
“So, since COVID … basically, they’re going in the wrong direction,” she added.
Weird! What could possibly be causing this burgeoning epidemic of car crashes that started in 2021 or so? They’re baffled. The article awkwardly wandered from one silly hypothesis to an even kookier theory, suggesting that people may have lost their driving skills during lockdowns, or maybe the lazy cops are busy eating vegemite and just aren’t catching as many drunk drivers as they used to.

Australia Broadcasting never even considered the jabs. The reporter picked only one human interest anecdote, and that was about a guy who crashed in August 2020 — before the jabs, and before the numbers started going up. Yawn.