• ahornsirup@artemis.camp
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    1 year ago

    And yet somehow a mandate worked for seatbelts. The people who politicised basic safety measures between then and now have blood on their hands.

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      1 year ago

      I made this argument back when the first mandates were happening. I don’t recall any major uproar about seat belts yet for some reason it’s a big deal when we do the same thing for masks.

      The craziest part of it is to me is that seat belts basically only affect the person wearing it, but masks affect both the person wearing it and the people around them. So if anything it makes more sense for masks to be mandated over seat belts.

      And not just seat belts, we already mandate clothing in the form of public exposure/indecency laws. And that doesn’t even have any tangible effect on anything. Technically we could all be running around naked but I don’t see any uproar about that either. I can at least somewhat understand wanting freedom and/or autonomy but the people complaining aren’t even consistent about it.

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      1 year ago

      I have a feeling they don’t care. Just because cars have seat belts doesn’t mean people use them correctly, or at all.