Not completely agree, simply because my safety conciousness means appropriate speeds. Falling off a bike at moderate speeds very rarely involves head contact, hands, arms, legs etc could often suffer, but a helmet doesn't help them of course.
Riding at 20 mph or more in circumstances where one might suddenly be brought to a stop can result in head first over the bars. But I don't indulge in that, my higher bike speeds are where the possibility of being brought to an abrupt stop is almost non-existent, so I've never been over the bars. All my flying has been in planes.
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remember 'Ritual, Satanic, sexual abuse of children?'
An absolutely disgusting example of a moral panic brought about by screwpot Evangelical fundamental American Christians.
It was an example of a moral panic and right now the Western World is going through another with all the Trump hatred etc.
We have Social Justice Warriors bringing people down over something they said 15 years ago, we have spent millions on investigating the actions of dead people, Saville and Heath spring to mind, for what end?
We cannot prosecute them, but somehow the popular narrative, perhaps driven by an avaricious Press drives the madness on.
The fact is that walking a mile has much the same danger as cycling a mile, but somewhere, a person with an obvious personality problem has decreed that compulsory cycle helmets is a GOOD IDEA, and sadly, many lesser folks cling to this madness.
Remember the death of Diana?
A few might ask, which Diana? but you are supposed to know that it is the Saint Diana of Windsor.
The ridiculous outpouring of artificial grief from people who never knew or met her was staggering. The outright bullying of those who declined to mark the day of her funeral and wanted to play football etc. was absolutely disgusting.
Moral panic.
