Re: Helmet efficacy test

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 3/25/2025 7:52 AM, John B. wrote:

 
As I've said many times before, I haven't been the U.S. for many years ...

 
Perhaps you should come visit to refresh your knowledge.
 

But do people in other parts of the world avoid playing baseball or in
an English "colony", Cricket, because one must wear a helmet, or U.S.
football. or riding to the hounds or all the various activities that
require  a helmet".

 
John, I live two blocks from a Village football field - the old high
school field - and an adjacent flat grassy field. Both are used by young
guys and kids for a variety of "pick up" sports, including touch football.
 
Guys playing touch football do not wear helmets. There is no mandate,
and apparently the guys judge that the risk of serious head injury is
low. I played touch football on an intramural team in college, and none
of us wore helmets.

Is quite common for brain injuries in America football, definitely a high
risk activity particularly at professional level, Rugby has similar
problems, though doesn’t have the using the Helmet as battering Ram that
was quoted I think by the book concussion.

Sport and concussion and how it’s dealt with or rather mostly isn’t ie
ignored which absolutely will come to bite the sport bodies ie get class
lawsuits and so on, which they will be hard pressed to defend!

 
Bicyclists volunteer to wear helmets mostly because of dishonest fear
mongering that convinces them that risk of brain injury is huge, far
worse than other normal activities. Here, I post data showing that's false.
 

Roger Merriman