What was the cash grab here exactly? Who would have benefited? Wearing helmets is good for safety. That was the right thing to do.

What they should have done was at least made a requirement for the quality level of helmets. Those plastic crap helmets everyone wears to comply with the 'law' (and I've been guilty of wearing them), don't do anything to protect you.

What is more insane is how a single quack doctor was able to convince an entire country to not put helmets on young kids because it might hurt their necks. That's the real absurd thing here.

The stupidity literally has studies done on it...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2678774/

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/4/233