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Got saved. this chart shows the drop in the rate of fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled since 1980. the first mandatory seatbelt law was passed in new york in 1984. now, again, in this circumstance i don t think the government like states should be requiring vaccines right now because i think it is likely to create as much backlash as it does compliance. but instead what we re seeing is states doing the opposite. several republican-run states stepped in to ban private entities from requiring vaccines. in addition to alabama, as i mentioned earlier, those bans are in place in florida, iowa, montana and texas. florida is even trying to get the cdc to stop requiring cruise ships, of all things, to require vaccination. i mean that s way, way, way more insane to me than telling municipalities they can t require their own drivers to buckle up. we also live in a different media environment in the year 2021, and to be honest i do not know if the seatbelt debate ....
Would have gone the same way if fox news was around in 1984. i mean there probably would have been hosts on air every night urging people to drive around at 70 miles per hour without a seatbelt in the front seat because they had the freedom to launch their heads through windshields, and if they died that way, well, they died for freedom, like soldiers on the battlefield, martyrs to the cause of freedom, just like how donald trump told americans to get out there and martyr themselves for freedom in the face of covid. but what did happen with the seatbelt debate? is that eventually both the law and the culture changed and wearing your seatbelt became a norm and people stopped fighting about it. turned out that putting on a seatbelt was not the road to serfdom, not some enormous imposition. just kind of makes everyone safer, saves a lot of lives. thank god that became the status quo. that should be what we re aiming for here as a precedent at a time when we are protected as possible from ....