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   mpjgregoire@mamot.fr's status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 01:03:50 JST mpjgregoire

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   • Brian Gettler

   @brian_gettler @histodons The case for mandatory masking is much stronger than that for mandatory #SeatBelt use. In the former case, we are protecting others as well as ourselves; in the latter, the unbuckled person takes most of the risk.

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     Brian Gettler (brian_gettler@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 01:03:57 JST Brian Gettler

     With ERs overflowing in #Québec, #Ontario, and elsewhere due to #COVID, #influenza and other respiratory illness and calls for mandatory #masking growing again, we could do worse than think about resistance to seat belt laws in the #1970s. In Jan. 1978, the VP and general manager of Ford #Canada, while objecting to new, costly safety measures (such as airbags), argued that drivers ought to be required to use existing low-cost technology - that is, seat belts. #history #histodons @histodons