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Covid also happened at the same time as a bunch of other political/media holy-wars, which is why it's so bizarrely an us vs. them issue in the US. If seat-belt
by mbg721 5y ago
Covid also happened at the same time as a bunch of other political/media holy-wars, which is why it's so bizarrely an us vs. them issue in the US. If seat-belts had been advocated by people half the country considered untrustworthy for unrelated reasons, they wouldn't be so universal today.
- burkaman 5y agoIsn't that basically what happened with seatbelts? For example: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-06-29-8602080321-story.html https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-06-29-86020803... I wasn't alive in the 80s, but honestly it seems pretty similar. A lot of people hated the laws, there were public fights and court challenges for a while, and then eventually society got over it.
- mbg721 5y agoI guess you might be right, although I consider it a little unpalatable that the side I would have agreed with lost so thoroughly. The pre-Fox-News media were the media who declared the Vietnam War lost and salivated at being the fourth branch of government during Watergate.