Comment by pksebben

You got me, it isn’t. There are other confounding factors; no driving, for instance.

An actual comparison would be pretty difficult for all kinds of reasons. But that’s part of what’s difficult about assessing something as vague as “whether people are being careful or not”, which is part of my point - this is something that’s incredibly hard to turn into a metric and (partially) due to this gets summarily ignored.

I must confess to spending quite a bit of time thinking about these sorts of things - the stuff that’s invisible to our current modalities of analysis. There’s probably something a little pathological about it.