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> However, critics argue that anecdotes of deaths in the dark could be equally applied to darker evenings, and that the elimination of Permanent DST was politically motivated.



Children deaths tend to be more significant in the eyes of the voting population, tbf.


The point is that there may have been an equal number of children saved from death due to more light in the evenings, but you can't really prove that.




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