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100% of the time? I don’t think I’ve ever thought about it, but you’re right. Everybody should be wearing bike helmets all the time to protect against head inju
by jtbayly 4y ago
100% of the time? I don’t think I’ve ever thought about it, but you’re right. Everybody should be wearing bike helmets all the time to protect against head injuries.
Really, we should change the name “bike helmets” to something else if we want people to change their thinking and behavior. Perhaps “personal safety devices”?
- zmgsabst 4y agoWe should mandate them! If we just stopped one of the 1.5 million brain injuries each year — mandating permanently wearing helmets for the entire population is worth it! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459300/#_article-31648_s4_ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459300/#_article-31648...
- criddell 4y ago> If we just stopped one of the 1.5 million brain injuries each year — mandating permanently wearing helmets for the entire population is worth it! I don't think most people would agree with you. If we passed a law in the US mandating no car can be capable of traveling faster than 25 mph, we would save 30,000 lives per year. But we don't do it because driving at higher speeds is worth the trade off in lives.
- zmgsabst 4y agoYes — I was being sarcastic, by using the logic we heard justifying QALY negative public health measures during the pandemic. I probably shouldn’t have used sarcasm online; it doesn’t translate well.