It's only a violation of personal freedom in the most obtuse sense where anything that dissuades or prevents you from doing anything you want (everybody's so cr

It's only a violation of personal freedom in the most obtuse sense where anything that dissuades or prevents you from doing anything you want (everybody's so creative) is an infringement on your personal freedoms. There's this saying that, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; as for Americans, when all you care about is personal freedom, everything looks like an infringement. Something that went largely ignored by the personal freedom crowd during the pandemic is one's right to life. The government is duty-bound to protect your right to life, or at least it should be. And so it's not much of a decision between requiring masks to enter certain spaces versus letting vast swaths of the population die. (There's a great book about this called Emergency State by Adam Wagner). Here in the UK, the zeitgeist around the seatbelt wearing is different: there's not much, if any objection to seatbelt laws. And no doubt part of that is our socialised healthcare system: you not wearing a seatbelt is a direct burden on the taxpayer. You guys in America don't have socialised healthcare, or at least nowhere near to the same extent, but the question still remains the same... you still have insurance. Are you okay with your insurance premiums paying for stupid people inflicting themselves with entirely preventable injuries from taking an ideological stance against seatbelts? Your premiums will likely go up the more this happens. I remember one rather harrowing conversation with an American who said that, in such situations, the insurance company should be able to deny coverage... and I guess I'm just horrified at what kind of society that is that discards its citizens to die like that. Another point is that you are infinitely less able to control a vehicle in an accident while flying through the windscreen, so not wearing a seatbelt is not only a deadly danger to yourself, but poses an inherent risk to other drivers and pedestrians. And depending on the accident, you becoming a projectile can and will kill other people in the car (eg: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y3InF19dzlM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y3InF19dzlM). Does this not matter?