There have been a
lot fewer car fatalities for obvious reasons.
Fewer fatalites from
all sorts of things, drunken accidents, flu, other respiratory and heart diseases etc. In an average month, the top 9
leading causes of death would lead to ~ 350 deaths per 100k, while if you take June as a relatively normal month this year, they've led to ~250 or a 29% decline.
Part of that is because the measures taken to reduce transmission for covid have also reduced transmission of other viruses, with can be the causes of death themselves or exacerbate them. Part of it is because the restrictions on movement and other activities lead to fewer dangerous situations. Part of that is because people with these pre-existing conditions have contracted covid on top and that has been attributed as the cause of death. And part of it is presumably due to the change in medical care influencing the diagnoses of chronic conditions causing death, with fewer people going into hospital at earlier stages.
But if you stick with car accidents as the example, more people died in 2 days in April from covid than they did in a typical year in the UK from the road. And yes while deaths are not at that level now, more people have died from Covid since the beginning of August than they do from car accidents in a typical year. So not only is he ignoring the reality that the change in behaviour that has come about because of covid is saving more lives on the road, he's also dramatically underestimated how deadly this virus is in comparison to something more "normal" like road deaths.
And that's ignoring the fact that the number of people that die on the roads is a travesty in the first place, not a barometer we should consider acceptable.