With the popularity of social media and the wide and rapid dissemination of information through the Internet, writers attempt to link one thing to another — things that maybe aren't related at all — to gain online traffic. Some have linked the fact that less driving curing the COVID-19 pandemic has somehow been an unintended act of conservation.
I can see how they think that, but it's not really the case. Read "Corona Virus, Cars and Deer Conservation," published August 3 at the Jamestown Gazette, and find out why.