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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: 25 Mar 2025 19:25:18 GMT
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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.

Is quite common for brain injuries in America football, definitely a high
risk activity particularly at professional level, Rugby has similar
problems, though doesn’t have the using the Helmet as battering Ram that
was quoted I think by the book concussion.

Sport and concussion and how it’s dealt with or rather mostly isn’t ie
ignored which absolutely will come to bite the sport bodies ie get class
lawsuits and so on, which they will be hard pressed to defend!
> 
> 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.
> 
Roger Merriman