you can take what you will from the whole thing, but masks were pretty heavily mandated in a lot of areas where bike helmets aren't necessarily. what I mean to

you can take what you will from the whole thing, but masks were pretty heavily mandated in a lot of areas where bike helmets aren't necessarily. what I mean to say is that perhaps it wasn't poor risk management, just behavior driven by mandatory obeying of laws and regulations. no one told them that they need to wear a helmet by law, so they didn't. (please keep in mind that I don't know anything about your local regulations, just sort of talking in ambiguous terms.)