The weirdest effect of the pandemic that I’ve seen is that a lot more unexploded WW2 ordnance is being found here in the Netherlands, as more people are going out metal-detecting (as a solo outdoor activity).
Including one person who decided to take an anti-tank mine to the police station on his motor scooter…
Also down because they’re not doing the operations. Bro-in-law was ready for a cornea transplant, and his friend was ready for a new kidney. Both cancelled (here in Canada) days before due to the virus. Kidney patient is now on dialysis. Collateral damage.
A friend of mine just donated part of his liver to someone… so, there’s that at least.
Oddly, here in Massachusetts there are half as many cars but twice the fatality rate of normal. https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2020/05/04/roadway-fatality-rate-massachusetts
#massholes
Seeing that in Texas too. Some of the people who are on the roads speeding at ridiculous rates. Like blowing past me in an 80mph zone. Some cops making big bucks for the city catching them doing 100 or 110 in the 70mh working zone just after. Less car crashes, but most of them fatal. I don’t drive in the left lane lately.
For the past few weeks, the motorcyclists high revving through my mountain road have been working on a big donation.
C’mon everyone, we’re all in this together. Let’s get driving and help those people out!
That is not quite how the lockdown kills. It kills because poverty kills. As we can see in the pandemic: poor people are much more likely to die from COVID-19, because the have more premeditating conditions, because they have a worse immune system. With a fucked up health system, that gets much worse.
But the lockdown doesn’t kill now. It kills later. And there will be no direct causality, just correlation. So we won’t see the numbers, just guesses.
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