The United States is on track to report its lowest number of pediatric hot car deaths in a year since record-keeping on the subject began more than three decades ago, and child safety groups are pointing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a big factor.
With summer right around the corner, there have been two pediatric vehicular heatstroke fatalities across the country in 2020, well below normal for the first five-plus months of a calendar year. The average number of hot car deaths for children through June 10 is around nine, according to Jan Null, the founder of NoHeatStroke.org, a website that tracks hot car deaths across the country and analyzes vehicle heating dynamics.
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In past documented cases, the most likely days for children to gain access to a vehicle were Saturdays and Sundays, when school wasn't in session."With fewer parents and caregivers traveling to work, and fewer children attending childcare and pre-school, it is imperative that all drivers, even those without children, lock their unattended vehicles so children cannot gain access,"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @02:39AM (4 children)
+No school shooting.
-More domestic violence/abuse.
-Boost in xenophobia and racial abuse against Asians.
+Cleaner air.
- No sports.
+No sports.
Add on what you got.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @02:51AM (1 child)
- civil unrest due to people not having jobs for 4 months
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:10AM
+ civil unrest
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:37AM (1 child)
What about Runaway? They been leaving him in the plant for dozens of hours, and he is overheating 'cause they are making him wear a mask! And he already was mordantly obese.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:20AM
He ded. Coronavirus, probably.
That's how it goes in the ozarks.
Hee-haw. Even the degenerate Californificationers rag on them.