In my childhood, when the movie BMX Bandits (1983) [0] was super popular, helmets and any kind of protection did not exist. We did all kinds of crazy stunts, influenced by the movie. I don't recall any harmed kid among tens if not hundreds. Scaped knees and elbows - sure, but that's all!
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Please ask Gemini to explain you that you cannot generalize over small samples like your two kids or a few dozen kids from your childhood…
Literally no kids of a mid-size town in Bulgaria had no head injury riding a bike w/o helmet since I was kid. Not sure where you got the two or a dozen. In fact, a dozen is a fairly good sample size in terms of medical studies, sometimes done with conclusions done with smaller cohorts. In fact, the first COVID-19 booster by Pfizer was only tested on mice, not on a single person even, yet it was administered to billions of people.
Helmets and bike gear are in industry and American industries have powerful lobbies.
> Literally no kids of a mid-size town in Bulgaria had no head injury riding a bike w/o helmet since I was kid
This is BS, any kid could have had one and you simply wouldn't have known it, especially as a kid. Even if some kid died, your parents would likely have been aware of that, but kids around likely wouldn't have, unless they were in the same class or otherwise knew the victim personally. (Simple exercise, check how many child around you do you remember dying when you were a kid, and then check the mortality rate in your country for this age class. You'll realize that statistically during the time you were at school, a bunch of kids in your neighborhood actually died of random causes and you never knew about that).
> In fact, the first COVID-19 booster by Pfizer was only tested on mice, not on a single person even, yet it was administered to billions of people.
Again, this is complete nonsense. There were indeed a few rounds of human trial before mainstream use … That's infowars-level of antivax BS.
> Helmets and bike gear are in industry and American industries have powerful lobbies.
Of course, what's an online discussion without the mandatory conspiracy theory … I appreciate the originality though, as the “big helmet” lobby isn't something I had encountered before. I see you prefer tinfoil hats to bike helmets …
You assume and don't research. There are studies that show that the more your trust kids to be on their own, the lesser the injuries. Yes, the first Pfizer booster was never tested on humans - it's a known fact!
> You assume and don't research.
Oh god, the typical “do your own research”. Is it HN or a random Facebook group? I thought people had a scientific background here, but apparently not everyone has one…
> There are studies that show that the more your trust kids to be on their own, the lesser the injuries
Trusting your kids != don't wear helmets. Note that it doesn't mean you shouldn't give medications to your kids either.
Yes there are overprotective parents that are toxic to their children, but that doesn't mean we need to go full new-age bullshit like you are.
> Yes, the first Pfizer booster was never tested on humans - it's a known fact!
I don't know who “knows” it, but it's completely made up…
Yes, FDA confirmed the first booster was only tested on mice [0].
[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/covid-booster-tested-mice-what-we-k...
Ah I see now, lack of reading proficiency + Newsweek sensationalist title got you confused.
It's written down here:
> new boosters use the same technology and process as the previous vaccines
It's just the same vaccine by FDA's standards and it has indeed been tested on hundreds of thousands of human test subjects.
Now explain how it's relevant to you and your kids not being dead yet?