Never mentioned car accident. Merely crossing the bridge. Try to keep up Rainman.
In grade 9, my friend called me that, but I didn't get it - I didn't watch the movie, and I didn't know what autism was. I had memorized the complete schedules of all 300+ grade 9 students, 50% of the grade 10 students, and about 15-20% of the grade 11's.
In reality, doing that was easy as shit, since all grade nine courses were mandatory at the time [advanced placement stream did not start until grade 10], so there were only really four basic templates for schedules shared by over 300 freshman students.
Normal people find that sort of calculating impressive. It's almost laughable for me to think about that. But I guess looking at it another way, memorizing the schedules of something like 310 to 330 students just in my grade level probably seemed impressive to someone who doesn't understand how limiting the math is there.
Incidentally, a combination lock should be called a
permutation lock because in a combination order doesn't matter, which means 3-29-15 is the same as 15-3-29. Since obviously this order does matter for a combination lock, it's actually a permutation lock [where order does matter].
^ You can skip all that. Anyway, what I meant was that your comparison takes car crashes and deaths, but a more analogous example would be to consider that not everyone gets into a car crash to begin with:
Covid-19 deaths < Covid-19 cases < Total population [since not everyone will get Covid-19 to begin with].
Just like:
Car accident deaths < Car accidents < People driving cars.
Yeah, there's around the 1.96% chance of death that you cited, but [1] the average person dying of COVID is 84.8 years old and has 2-3 separate health comorbidities, and [2] so far in Canada, only 1 in 96 people have gotten this virus. Given this number was 1 in 297, it's becoming more obvious that everyone who is going to get this virus will get this virus before an actual properly-tested vaccine will be available.
But who is to say - not everyone gets seasonable influenza. Maybe the rate of virus spread will max out where it is now. Even if it continues, you're ultimately afraid of a virus that kills people who are at an average age and health status where 94% of people are already dead. 
