Election time voting against mandatory helmet laws.

[The Womble]

At the end of the day Jules, its like arguing with anit fluorodation or anti immunisation... ists. youll never win an arguement
Give one child in 'what ever the number is' a shot they react to, and the usual parents will be convinced the governments trying to kill their children

There is a tonne of evidence that says there is no benefit to consuming fluoride, Drinking water containing fluoride put this highly toxic chemical directly into your system, not onto your teeth.
It is also a fact that immunisation has caused fatalities and many cases of severe autism and is suspected of causing many other problems. Of cause when you speak to older people about the days when things like polio was around you soon see the other side of the coin.
Anyone who thinks immunisation is without risks is ignorant and anyone who criticizes parents for weighing up these risks could be called other things too. Having been aware of all this I would be lying if I did not say I had a great deal of trepidation when taking my son to be immunised.
Its funny that people can connect the greater good of immunisation v's the small percentage who are left as vegetables or mentally handicaped.
Yet are totally unable to see that getting the masses on bikes is far better for the greater good of the population health
and also the environment.

yay me. I hooked one

[alex]

personally i feel helmets should not be mandatory

i would still wear a helmet

[simonn]

... many cases of severe autism ... Its funny that people can connect the greater good of immunisation v's the small percentage who are left as vegetables or mentally handicaped.

It is only as funny as the people who do not understand it and prefer to listen to porn stars and movie stars instead of, I dunno, the medical profession.

The (only) guy, Andrew Wakefield, who published the (only) autism link has had his study withdrawn because it was wrong and was struck off the United Kingdom medical register.

Herd immunity. A certain percentage of the population need to be immunised or immunisation does not work at all for everybody. That is why it is selfish not to be immunised or have your kids immunised without very good reasons. The opinions of porn and movie stars are not good reasons. The chance of something going wrong whilst being immunised is orders of magnitude less than if there was no herd immunity.

[rustguard]

Several British cases where parents claimed that their children had died as a result of Urabe MMR had received compensation under the “vaccine damage payment” scheme

pasted from your medical profession link

[jules21]

compensation is sometimes paid out of compassion, including as an alternative to protracted, expensive court cases. it's not necessarily an admission of guilt. it also has nothing to do with helmet laws

[simonn]

Several British cases where parents claimed that their children had died as a result of Urabe MMR had received compensation under the “vaccine damage payment” scheme

pasted from your medical profession link

If you look at the link, I was actually quoting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccin ... retraction

Full retraction

In response to the GMC investigation and findings, the editors of The Lancet announced on 2 February 2010 that they "fully retract this paper from the published record."[74]

Your disingenuous and dishonest quote is from the litigation section. Litigation != medical profession.

In any case my response to you is, so what? Are you trying to claim that the study was actually not retracted and its author not stopped from practising medicine?

This litigation actually occurred before the whole mess was cleared up in any case. Follow the references if you do not believe me.

Also, using your argument... I'll see your handful of kids dying from immunisation and raise you millions of small pox, polio... ...you name it deaths.

[biker jk]

Several British cases where parents claimed that their children had died as a result of Urabe MMR had received compensation under the “vaccine damage payment” scheme

pasted from your medical profession link

Clearly an argument on par with most from the "flat earthers" opposing compulsory helmet wearing laws.

[il padrone]

Several British cases where parents claimed that their children had died as a result of Urabe MMR had received compensation under the “vaccine damage payment” scheme

pasted from your medical profession link

Clearly an argument on par with most from the "fear-mongerers" claiming <"a helmet stole my baby".... oops no> , "my helmet saved my life".

Fixed

Two can play at the 'insult' game. Not very gratifying though, eh?

[Mean Machine]

Helmets are mandatory for motorbikes and scooters, would you argue that they should be optional too?

Absolutely. It's a shame not everyone is mature enough to think for themselves and needs a mummy every time they come back from the toilet or go for a ride/drive. But hey, here's my pay cheque, be my guest, subsidies away if making me do the right thing (in your eyes of course) makes you sleep better at night.

[Percrime]

Ive seen a friend fall off his bike riding downhill and break his jaw. The helmet was cracked on the side where his head impacted. Luckily no brain damage. Imagine the damage with no helmet. Dont tell me the helmet DID NOT protect him?

Bwahhhhahhhhhhhahhhhhhhhaaa
Damm funny face your mate has, unless it was a full face helmet. He landed on his jaw and broke it. How do you think it got broken. Then he fell over and broke the helmet. Harley riders have long argued that the face is a good crumple zone. His jaw may have saved his life.

[justD]

I don't understand these people who say that it's their right to force others to wear helmets for their own safely... Well, more people, and I do mean many times more people, die from driving a car than riding with or without a helmet. So let's outlaw cars and alcohol and living in a city and getting out of bed in the morning. All those things are more dangerous than riding a bike without a helmet so let's outlaw them.

Repeating what has been said already: I like riding with a helmet for the sake of safety most of the time, but while the helmet laws are in place I think our chances of getting widespread bicycle hiring options are pretty slim and I would love to make use of those myself and think they would do a lot to spread good will towards cyclists as more people give cycling a try.

[The Womble]

Lots ore people would die from travelling in cars if they didnt wear seatbelts too

[The Womble]

And again, there are several reasons that people choose not to ride a bicycle. Helmets are not THE reason.

[hannos]

My vote this year will be against mandatory bicycle helmet laws so I did a little searching but found little so far.

http://www.vexnews.com/news/10087/cover ... -comrades/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... id=3570047
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1ndor_T%C3%A1nczos
http://www.cycle-helmets.com/helmet_statistics.html#
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/764 ... t-protest/

Mod Says: This entire bit about your political orientation / opinions has been removed as we are not supporting political discussions on the forum. That being said, if you can tie it into your main point of your opinions on Helmet Laws - then this is a real cycling discussion.


I know my vote is worthless alone but if there is a good option to vote against the mandatory helmet laws i will take it ?
I am sure plenty of others on the forum here will be interested as well.

Cheers Steve.

What this tells me is you're unstable.

You'd much rather cast your vote against something as trivial as mandatory helmets as opposed to health infrastructure, public transport, economy, carbon emissions etc.


Steve, you are one very shallow person.

[The Womble]

Hannos, you seemed to have wandered into a serious thread
AND fired up

NNNNNoooooooooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

[Percrime]

Lots ore people would die from travelling in cars if they didnt wear seatbelts too

Lots less people would die in cars if they wore helmets.

[hannos]

Hannos, you seemed to have wandered into a serious thread
AND fired up

NNNNNoooooooooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

ooops! my bad. I'll just go over there --->


or is it over here <--- ?

[Percrime]

What this tells me is you're unstable.

You'd much rather cast your vote against something as trivial as mandatory helmets as opposed to health infrastructure, public transport, economy, carbon emissions etc.


Steve, you are one very shallow person.

Tells me he thinks individual freedom is worth more than health.. PT and the entire planet. Very deep Steve. As to hannos that shallow mercenary person easily bribed by political handouts..

[hannos]

What this tells me is you're unstable.

You'd much rather cast your vote against something as trivial as mandatory helmets as opposed to health infrastructure, public transport, economy, carbon emissions etc.


Steve, you are one very shallow person.

Tells me he thinks individual freedom is worth more than health.. PT and the entire planet. Very deep Steve. As to hannos that shallow mercenary person easily bribed by political handouts..

pray tell, Percrime, who AM I voting for since I've already easily been bribed? Because I sure as hell haven't decided yet so you must be from the future...



...or a d*ckhead.




Have a nice night.

[Percrime]

What this tells me is you're unstable.

You'd much rather cast your vote against something as trivial as mandatory helmets as opposed to health infrastructure, public transport, economy, carbon emissions etc.


Steve, you are one very shallow person.

Tells me he thinks individual freedom is worth more than health.. PT and the entire planet. Very deep Steve. As to hannos that shallow mercenary person easily bribed by political handouts..

pray tell, Percrime, who AM I voting for since I've already easily been bribed? Because I sure as hell haven't decided yet so you must be from the future...



...or a d*ckhead.




Have a nice night.

Why you charming gentleman you are going to vote for whoever loses of course. And then lie about it.

[biker jk]

Two can play at the 'insult' game. Not very gratifying though, eh?

It wasn't an insult. Just highlighting another of your outlandish claims. When they are exposed you resort to "it's just my opinion" that fewer people are cycling because of mandatory helmet laws. Where's the evidence? Bicycle sales have been rising for some time now. You then shift the argument to "oh, but more people would be cycling if there wasn't a mandatory helmet law". How may more? Prove it.

[steveagle]

Bwahhhhahhhhhhhahhhhhhhhaaa
Damm funny face your mate has, unless it was a full face helmet. He landed on his jaw and broke it. How do you think it got broken. Then he fell over and broke the helmet. Harley riders have long argued that the face is a good crumple zone. His jaw may have saved his life.

I dont see how this is a laughing matter... Are you saying that the helmet caused the jaw breakage? Im guessing the impact of his head on the ground caused the jaw to dislocate.

Imagine the damage to his head without a helmet hitting the ground at relatively high speed. There would certainly more bleeding and bruising to the brain/skull. This i am 100% sure. How is this not obvious to people.

No, a helmet will not necessarily save a life, but it will reduce the damage caused in some circumstances (and any reduction is good). IMO anyone who disagrees is wrong.

[il padrone]

Just highlighting another of your outlandish claims. When they are exposed you resort to "it's just my opinion" that fewer people are cycling because of mandatory helmet laws. Where's the evidence? Bicycle sales have been rising for some time now. You then shift the argument to "oh, but more people would be cycling if there wasn't a mandatory helmet law". How may more? Prove it.

Not really so sure what these 'outlandish claims' were. However if you want some data on the reduction in bicycle use with helmet compulsion, look here



Just one piece of data graphed from that site, but please read more of it, and tell us where it is incorrect.

Cheers
Pete

[zues]

IMHO I would suggest there has been a decline in people riding to work after 1991 due to the negative publicity surrounding the mandatory helmet laws. Its telling people that cycling in general is unsafe so you should be wearing a helmet. Once the parents of Australia are alerted to this thought they stop the kids riding to school and spouses stop each other riding to work. It also gives the perception that riding to work is not a safe and viable option in Australia.
In my household I ride after work and on the weekends mainly on low traffic -rural roads. Rarely ride to work because I havent got a PSP route and wife doesnt want me to . Most people who ride to my workplace ride a PSP.
My daughter rides for fitness and pleasure as well. Only rides locally or along the river PSP without a bike helmet - She reckons its not cool would mess the hair. Wouldnt ride to work as riding facilities are not safe or adequate on route to work. Reckons helmet laws wouldnt stop her riding around anyway.
She has spent time in Europe and reckons that bicycle riding is seen as a legitimate form of transport while in Australia its percieved only as a leisure activity.

[damhooligan]

And again, there are several reasons that people choose not to ride a bicycle. Helmets are not THE reason.

but it is a reason...
it does keep pople from riding...