I'm fully vaccinated, do I need a helmet?:foo:

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​​​​​First time poster trying to get the post count up but doing it almost the worst way possible? Worst case would've been posting it 5 times.

I just wear the trashbin home. Those things are heavy but tough.

Have you had your booster crash?

Yes whenever training or going somewhere far or fast on the bike, no for a trip to the local shop or such. If I'm going to my office which is two kilometers away it's 50/50 if I wear the helmet or not.
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Bad news comes in threes.

Your thread moved from General Cycling to The Helmet Thread 2 in Advocacy & Safety forum.

The energy of a crash goes up with the square of speed. It's highly not surprising that road cyclists going much faster who habitually wear helmets get hospitalized more often than commuters in the Netherlands who don't.

That says nothing about their efficacy because it is not an apples to apples comparison. On a road ride at 32 km/hr versus a commute at 20 km/hr, the kinetic energy absorbed by your body in an impact is
​​​​​2.56 times greater.

To derive the conclusion that helmets are cosmetic from a study which compares apples to oranges is wrong.
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I have to say thank you to my fellow BF members for the outright belly laughs you give me ;) There are people here who could make a living writing comedy. The laughs I get from here always brighten my day.

mandatory helmet law revoked
 

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While I always wear my helmet, even when riding my trike, I despise all the little controlling laws like helmet laws.

Yup, micromanaging laws like this go against the idea of freedom which this country is supposed to be about. Where I think helmet use is a great idea, particularly in certain situations, there is little reason to force it on anyone willing to take the risk going without one.

Seems like a missed opportunity to give out free helmets to those that can't afford them.

The helmet law in Vancouver, WA was used by police to target primarily homeless bicycle riders. Pretty easy to spot a bicycle rider without a helmet, and that makes an easy pretense for the police to harass the rider.

I wear a helmet except on some backcountry gravel rides. I think it should be a choice, not a mandate.

They did have some free helmet giveaways. They also experimented with free loaner helmet stations along the Burke-Gilman Trail.

I don't believe in Mandatory Helmets but I would never, anymore, ride without one.

"The King County Board of Health voted to repeal the helmet mandate because of accusations that the law was disproportionately enforced against people of color and homeless people."

Ok... I'll put in... Maybe this is the Right Execution but for The Wrong Idea. Did I get that right?

Whats odd here is the Health Board is concerned about a law being enforced. So they got rid of the law. Did I get that right?

Just everybody knows that in Seattle it is Unhealthy for people of color and the homeless to ride without a helmet. Naw... I did not get that right...

Am I confused?

Yes, you are. If the law is being selectively enforced against homeless people and members of certain racial groups, it's obvious that it's primarily serving as a pretext to harass people, and its enforcement has nothing to do with "health". It's also quite reasonable for the Board of Health to conclude that the likelihood of someone getting seriously hurt during a police stop is greater than the likelihood that wearing a helmet will prevent a serious injury, or that mandatory helmet laws don't actually significantly increase helmet use. Since they created the law in the first place, it's definitely their call to determine whether it should be repealed.

OK, so it's a bit weird that the Board of Health could make helmets mandatory in the first place, but I think that if you read this release, they've obviously come to the conclusion that making helmets more widely available is a better and less risky way of encouraging helmet use:

Seattle and King County update

There's really not a good argument to be made for the proposition that enforcing helmet use should be a police matter.

Latest helmet thread merged into The Helmet Thread 2

That's the thread equivalent of being shoved out of the airlock, right?

Not complaining, mind you. The framing of the OP already made it a bit of a train wreck.