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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:39:07 -0400
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:12:33 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 3/25/2025 7:52 AM, John B. wrote:
>> 
>> As I've said many times before, I haven't been the U.S. for many years ...
>
>Perhaps you should come visit to refresh your knowledge.
>
>> But do people in other parts of the world avoid playing baseball or in
>> an English "colony", Cricket, because one must wear a helmet, or U.S.
>> football. or riding to the hounds or all the various activities that
>> require  a helmet".
>
>John, I live two blocks from a Village football field - the old high 
>school field - and an adjacent flat grassy field. Both are used by young 
>guys and kids for a variety of "pick up" sports, including touch football.
>
>Guys playing touch football do not wear helmets. There is no mandate, 
>and apparently the guys judge that the risk of serious head injury is 
>low. I played touch football on an intramural team in college, and none 
>of us wore helmets.
>
>Bicyclists volunteer to wear helmets mostly because of dishonest fear 
>mongering that convinces them that risk of brain injury is huge, far 
>worse than other normal activities. Here, I post data showing that's false.

Speaking of dishonest fear mongering, how is your fear of having a gun
in your home doing?

--
C'est bon
Soloman