I’m really going to disagree here. What you’re outlining is a common claim that is almost completely debunked empirically. Safety gains are so much larger than any measurable increased risk taking that they are barely noise if that.
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We have actual reviews of helmet use, which I review in the paper that’s a pre-print above and they overwhelmingly show the benefits of safety devices greatly outweigh anything you can posit as increased risk.
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Cars today are enveloped in many more safety devices, and are unequivocally safer. Many high-risk sports are done in a more risky way these days, but false sense of security isn't it--arguably, such people are seeking the risk. https://journals.lww.com/epidem/FullText/2012/11000/Does_Risk_Compensation_Undo_the_Protection_of_Ski.35.aspx … or …https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/pmc/articles/PMC2598370/ …
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Risk compensation has been rebutted so many times! It's plausible for some individuals doing recreational sports who are seeking high-risk activity in general, but overall, every safety device... unsurprisingly improves safety.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/2/3/16 …
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And for masks, all of social science suggests that masks would *signal* something extraordinary is going on and increase caution, as the study shows! Plus, they remove stigma (how are only the sick supposed to wear masks as WHO originally recommended?)
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Finally, all the correlational studies that find states/countries with mask mandates doing better? Sure, maybe it's due to confounding that masks are associated with *other* better behaviors but... that just kills the harm argument.
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But that’s really stretching it. There then has to be harm, not demonstrated, also somehow never comes up in studies, but is dwarfed by a lot of benefits, all of which have to be orthagonal to the mask benefit.
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