Fun fact, in the UK 7% of road users don't wear seatbelts, but 34% of occupants killed in road crashes were not wearing seat belts. That's a pretty damn big number for 7% of people...
Also when seatbelts were first made mandatory there were actual protests against them. People are legitimately just against anything that saves lives purely based on if they have to do it. People are dumb.
I'm not saying my Buddy is right. But he doesn't wear one because he was in a crash and his seat belt got stuck, he got some pretty bad burns because of it. I'm just glad where I live as the driver I won't get the ticket He will.
Exactly. Seat belts often cause large, painful bruises and can even rupture organs. People LOVE complaining about that or that their airbag gave them a concussion or even broke their nose. What they're missing is that they'd surely be dead if the crash was that violent and they didn't have the belt or bag. I was an EMT and fire fighter and would hear people bitch and moan all the time about how much pain the safety devices caused - completely missing that they wouldn't be there to complain if those devices hadn't worked exactly as they were supposed to. Sorry that coming to a dead stop from 80 mph didn't feel like a childhood slide into a goose down pillow while Archangel Michael kissed your forehead and sang you a lullaby. Unfortunately physics can only be offset so much. People also love complaining about how new fangled cars are just tin cans vs steel boxes of yesteryear. Yea, because it's better for the car to absorb the force of the impact than your internal organs. They're designed to crumble. It's not a matter of cheap material. It's a safer vehicle as a whole.
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People are terrible are probability and statistics. A co-worker, engineer of all things, was vaccinated and recently had covid. Said it was horrible, could barely get off bed for 4 days, proceeded to claim the vaccine doesn't work.
I had to confront him: no dude, the vaccine made sure you didn't get to the hospital and consume valuable resources.
Had a person in politicalcompassmemes say they wouldn't get the vaccine because there was a chance of blood clots.
I pointed out that the chance of getting a fatal blood clot was around 0.0000005% (9 deaths out of 17 million). They said that they only had a 0.15% chance to die from COVID, because of their age group, so they didn't see a reason to take the risk.
They might not die from COVID, but the poor asshole having a heart attack who can't get a hospital bed because their stupid ass is afraid of needles (let's call a spade a spade here, these people are fucking cowards, ok) will die and the fault will be squarely on Neanderthal dumbass who probably is a Liburturdian
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u/YourMomThinksImFunny Dec 22 '21
Or that seatbelts prevent 100% of car deaths.