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Seriously, Stop With the Traffic Death Comparisons

…you sound like a total dumbass

Tim Wise
6 min readMar 30, 2020
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Look Bro,

I’m sure you think you sound clever, analytical even.

I’m sure you think you’re “owning the libs,” and with math no less, as you roll out what you consider to be the relevant digits regarding this whole pandemic thing. You know the ones I mean, right? The numbers showing that there are nearly 40,000 traffic-related deaths each year in America, and only a little more than 2,000 from COVID-19.

Take that Anthony Fauci, you sputter with a fist pump, or better yet, “Little” Anthony Fauci. Yes, that’s more like it. That’s the way your Emperor God would say it because after all, Dr. Fauci is short, and Donald Trump is tall, and what matters in a pandemic is being tall, not being an expert on infectious disease. Why would we wanna listen to a guy like Fauci who looks as though he spent his life in a lab doing scienc-y shit, rather than banging porn stars, ripping off subcontractors, and wolfing down Big Macs, which is what real men do, amirite?

You were so stoked when the president laid out the ironclad logic on FOX, explaining how absurd all this hysteria is, especially when it comes to shutting down the economy over this thing. I mean, who can argue with this:

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Tim Wise
Tim Wise

Written by Tim Wise

Senior Fellow, African American Policy Forum, critical race theorist, and author of 9 books on racism and racial inequity in the U.S.

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