Look I’m as much “fuck cars” as the next guy but riding a motorcycle on a highway is unironically suicidal. I personally know a guy who got in a bad crash on one but miraculously survived; he had a year long recovery period but will have various pain and dysfunction in his body for the rest of his life. I also know some people who did pathology rotations (state medical examiner office, autopsy basically) and the big three categories of bodies coming in were drug overdoses, suicides, and motorcycle crashes.
One of the facebook comments links to a seventh person who died a few days before these on June 18th: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-sr-530-crash.amp
Shit sucks, but
Been riding for year, best decision I ever made. Imagine commuting to work and every day arriving with a big smile on your face because just getting there is fun. Imagine hating your job but by the time you get home all those negative feelings have been purged from your body.
Yes a bike is more dangerous than a car, but if mitigating risk was truly your first priority then you wouldn’t do anything. Riding a motorcycle is an exercise in risk management, if you don’t do it when you have any added risk factors (inebriation, fatigue, etc) then you’ll be as safe as you need to be.