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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by otterley on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:31PM (#25084872)
It doesn't only hurt yourself. Mandating seatbelts reduces the population's overall risk of injury. When you have a society that has a public fallback for health insurance, reducing the amount of serious injuries has a beneficial impact on lowering the cost of providing healthcare to society.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by caeril on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:52PM (#25085154)
If this is the rationale, why do countries with public health insurance fallback not also have mandatory BMI or tobacco/alcohol limits, given the much much higher fatality rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer versus automobile accidents?
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by brewdad on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:54PM (#25085972)
There may not be hard limits on tobacco or alcohol use but they do tend to have very high "sin" taxes on those items. Those who use the most pay the most. It is imperfect but probably the best we can do without going full surveillance state in people's homes.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by otterley on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:23PM (#25085592)
Because we live in an imperfect world and it takes time for public opinion to adapt to change.

Also, we do have BAC limits for driving, and public intoxication prohibitions.

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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by nradov on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:54PM (#25089638)
Are you claiming that in a perfect world we would have legal limits on BMI, and totally ban alcohol and tobacco?
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by otterley on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:32AM (#25093304)
Of course not. I’m saying that complex situations yield inconsistent results, and that way we solve one problem may not be exactly the same way we solve a different problem, even though they may look superficially similar.
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