All these deaths are preventable. Covid is our latest normalized mass casualty event, but vehicular killings have been going strong for over a century. When you point out that either don't have to happen, people look at you like you have two heads. The idea that America is a death cult used to seem like hyperbole to me, but how else do you explain the fact that it's acceptable for hundreds or thousands of people to die needlessly every day? I commute by bike, and every day I wonder if today's the day when some asshole in an SUV ends my life because they have their nose buried in their phone on the way to the grocery store.