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Fourth estate loves to hype up narratives of bad things happening more frequently.
We saw this with claims about violent crime and retail thefts—both involved numbers being used in ways that served interests of power.
If press is making a big stink about rising traffic fatalities, first question is "since when"; second is "what has that trend looked like" since well before then.
Not everything is about ongoing pandemic. History began before 2020. Covid is but one thread of a beknotted tangle.
We saw this with claims about violent crime and retail thefts—both involved numbers being used in ways that served interests of power.
If press is making a big stink about rising traffic fatalities, first question is "since when"; second is "what has that trend looked like" since well before then.
Not everything is about ongoing pandemic. History began before 2020. Covid is but one thread of a beknotted tangle.