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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