Pandemic figures have become inevitable, incorporated into daily life, such as weather or road updates. Friday: 211,000 cases in total in Tennessee,2732 deaths,9,133 in poor health enough to be hospitalized.
But unlike weather or traffic, most people don’t have much non-public importance attributed to COVID-19 metrics. To get an idea of how the pandemic has affected Tennessee, we want comparison points.
Consider this: COVID-19 deaths more than doubled the number of deaths on the road by 2020.
Across the state of Tennessee, there were an average of 48,650 injuries and 999 road accident deaths in recent years.
Even among Tennesseens, car travel generally declined earlier this year, however, the state reported that it had had very little effect on road deaths in general.
Throughout the pandemic, local and national politicians compared COVID-19 with other causes of death, such as road accidents, in order to normalize magnitude.
“In MarchArray . . . (President) Trump was making comparisons to the number of road deaths to minimize the crown,” said Angie Schmitt of “Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in United States”. “This is a smart example of how a maximum death rate can be normalized in Array . . . it can desensitize us to another bureaucracy of injustice and cruelty.
Schmitt said the United States has the highest number of deaths from road traffic accidents and pedestrians in the evolved world. A 2013 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the United States has twice the average number of deaths from road traffic accidents among rich countries. Road protection was sometimes not considered a political factor, as the duty to road deaths lies with the deaths themselves, without lawmakers, road protection engineers or car manufacturers.
“Someone will die and we will say it was stupid for not being in the crosswalk,” Schmitt said, explaining that many roads do not have crosswalks or even sidewalks. “It’s just one example of a ruthless drive that we have. “
The same impulse is in the pictures of the pandemic. Many others have accused those in poor physical condition and the dead of having underlying fitness disorders or being old. Knox News received dozens of emails to the Knox County Board of Health, where the council’s conflicting parties anti-COVID security measures filed the case.
But unlike a traffic incident, the threat of illness is everywhere and is not limited to a twist of fate or an individual.
“Road injuries are not a contagious disease,” Knox County Health Department Director Charity Menefee said at a press conference. “When you have a contagious disease that causes this point of death that can continue to grow exponentially, that’s worrying.
COVID-19 has already overcome some of the leading causes of death in Tennessee in recent years. Tennessee lost another 2732 people to COVID-19. This would make COVID-19 the seventh leading cause of death in the state when compared to the recent top list of major causes of death in 2018.
Across the country, COVID-19 has killed more than 210,000 people. According to Research by Scientific American, COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death in the country, ahead of diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. COVID-19 surpassed the center’s disease and cancer as the leading cause of death for two weeks in April.
COVID-19 does not show any symptoms of prevention in the short term. No vaccine will come. The remedies are still experimental. In the short term, the only thing Tennessians can do is prevent the spread.
“There is fatigue with everything that is said to have to do with the five most sensible actions, other people need it to end,” Menefee said. “But we are seeing genuine consequences of the disease in our community. “