From Daniel Steinberg:
The man who killed Kim was on the phone while he was driving.
It feels so avoidable.
There are things you are supposed to do when you are driving for your safety and the safety of those around you.
Fasten your seatbelts.
At one point that was a major issue and seen as an infringement of your freedom.
... I remember my mom telling me how stupid they thought seatbelts were when she was a kid. “We never wore seatbelts when I was a kid, and we were fine.” She said this to me in her 50s, and there was still a trace of sneer in her voice; not at her own past ignorance, but at being forced to do something she had never fully believed was right? Fucking wild.
It takes little effort on your part to do the many things it takes to drive safely.
It requires that you understand the risks to yourself and that you care about the risks to others.
The man who killed Kim was on the phone while he was driving.
He ignored the risks to himself and cared little about the risks to others.
In this time of the Corona pandemic don’t be that person.
Don’t be the person who could do the least they could do but didn’t. And for what?
The driver didn’t want to wait to talk to his friend in Romania.
In this time of the Corona pandemic don’t be that person.
Wear a mask.