When the first seatbelt laws started coming out there were chuds who went full refusenik mode. Pamphlets stuck under windshields were made on how to remove seat belts from a car.
This group of chuds invented conspiracy theories about seat belts killing people. The idea that seatbelts kill then spawned the idea that the best way to survive an automobile accident was to fly through the windshield. Rumors circulated and spread among churches, bars, and old school mailing lists about which cars allowed one to fly through the windshield the easiest. Cars and trucks which had this feature were sought after in some circles for awhile.
When some of the more vociferous people who were against seatbelts and for flying through windshields started dying, so did most of the anti-seatbelt sentiment in America. It was a flash in the pan movement . The vast majority of current horsepaste-eating chuds will suddenly learn to love modern medicine when covid directly effects them or someone they care about. The true-believer paste eaters like the anti-seatbelt folk before them are just simple-minded reactionaries. Most of them won't learn that fire is hot until they are burned by it.
This group of chuds invented conspiracy theories about seat belts killing people.
I know you're doing a (top-tier) bit here, but I feel the need to point out that my parents and grandparents used to complain that seat belts would, and I quote, "strangle you if you were in a car accident."
my father (before i was born) drove drunk and crashed into a barrier, launching himself through his windshield. he believes not wearing the seatbelt saved his life for some reason and tried to pass along this "wisdom" to me. he said a seat belt will trap you in a car and burn you to death.
thankfully, this was after my mom had divorced him, because he was basically deadbeat shithead. so his lessons were fairly compartmentalized. he was also against flu shots, going to the doctor, going to the dentist, and pretty much anything that would be recommended by public health experts.
reactionary boomers were a very deranged breed and some of them will choose death before the dishonor of learning a lesson.
When the first seatbelt laws started coming out there were chuds who went full refusenik mode. Pamphlets stuck under windshields were made on how to remove seat belts from a car.
This group of chuds invented conspiracy theories about seat belts killing people. The idea that seatbelts kill then spawned the idea that the best way to survive an automobile accident was to fly through the windshield. Rumors circulated and spread among churches, bars, and old school mailing lists about which cars allowed one to fly through the windshield the easiest. Cars and trucks which had this feature were sought after in some circles for awhile.
When some of the more vociferous people who were against seatbelts and for flying through windshields started dying, so did most of the anti-seatbelt sentiment in America. It was a flash in the pan movement . The vast majority of current horsepaste-eating chuds will suddenly learn to love modern medicine when covid directly effects them or someone they care about. The true-believer paste eaters like the anti-seatbelt folk before them are just simple-minded reactionaries. Most of them won't learn that fire is hot until they are burned by it.
I know you're doing a (top-tier) bit here, but I feel the need to point out that my parents and grandparents used to complain that seat belts would, and I quote, "strangle you if you were in a car accident."
i didn't even read this as a bit.
my father (before i was born) drove drunk and crashed into a barrier, launching himself through his windshield. he believes not wearing the seatbelt saved his life for some reason and tried to pass along this "wisdom" to me. he said a seat belt will trap you in a car and burn you to death.
thankfully, this was after my mom had divorced him, because he was basically deadbeat shithead. so his lessons were fairly compartmentalized. he was also against flu shots, going to the doctor, going to the dentist, and pretty much anything that would be recommended by public health experts.
reactionary boomers were a very deranged breed and some of them will choose death before the dishonor of learning a lesson.
I'm still confused about how they settled on ivermectin when there's so many other medicines to take.
Well, ivermectin comes in apple-flavored paste form. Are covid vaccines fruit-flavored?
I bet you could get some of these people to vaccinate themselves by putting the vaccine inside a candy bar.