Never let your government get away with claiming that #bikeHelmets are "the first rule of bike safety".
Rule number one is infrastructure, and the 2nd is air+brakes+chain mechanical soundness of the bike, upright geometry of the bike, traffic awareness, ride with fingers on your brake levers and having practiced emergency stops, twenty is plenty... Helmets are for stunts or a footnote to "don't fall on your head" rule that applies to walking moreso than biking.
@enobacon It's worth noting that public health and individual health are not necessarily the same thing. I was making this point during the Mask Wars in 2020. The folks getting all persnickety about wearing the best masks were trying to improve individual health, which is fine. But the best outcome for public health getting the most possible people to wear any mask at all, and persnicketiness hinders this.
Of course that all became irrelevant when nearly everyone decided COVID was 'just a flu'.
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Jef Poskanzer
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