Americans hated the national speed limit of 55 mph

We rejoiced when it rose back to 65 in most places and higher - on occasion, much higher - in some.

And we knew all along that a higher speed limit meant more people would die in traffic accidents, and that each of us faced a greater risk of being killed when we are part of the traffic.

And the only thing to be said in favor of the higher limits was and is that we were annoyed and made impatient by the lower limit.

Bear all that in mind when someone says the Republican willingness to accept more deaths - even one more death - as the price of getting out of lockdown is genocidal, a decision to murder Americans, and blah, blah, blah.