It makes us sad to see someone cut down unnecessarily, but it’s priced into life and the economy, and we move on.
We’ll find out eventually how much traffic deaths are tied directly to the economy. Probably there are fewer than normal in 2020 due the bust and COVID-19 restrictions changing people’s behavior to keep them around the house more. People die in wrecks in West Texas at rates about 5x higher than the state as a whole, probably due to the distances involved, the oil field, and being on Interstate 20 where a bunch of mixed traffic goes.Ģ019: 53 Source: Texas Department of Transportation To try to get an idea, traffic fatalities are usually something the news covers as significant.
Twenty-seven deaths doesn’t seem like a whole lot for a county of more than 160K, but we also don’t have a great standard of comparison for what “a little” or “a lot” is Ector County COVID Data Dashboard, July 17, 2020 Please stay in, wash your hands often, and wear a mask when out.Īs of today, there were 27 deaths in Ector County from COVID-19.
As many people have died of it between July 1 and today as die all year from influenza/pneumonia in the seasonal flu’s worst years
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