On 4/6/2021 7:50 AM, jbeattie wrote:

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Yes, soon you'll be driven underground and will have to ride a Peloton bike! Meanwhile, the rest of the non-lunatic world is out riding bikes -- on streets and doing fine. Some even have dreaded flashers . . . IN THE DAY TIME!!! SAFETY INFLATION!!! https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZWEAA...wa/s-l1600.jpg

And somehow cycling rates in the U.S. continue to slowly increase!
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191204/participants-in-bicycling-in-the-us-since-2006/

2020 will likely show a huge increase but that will likely decline once
the pandemic is over, though hopefully not all they way down to the 2019
level. But you can be certain that there will be individuals that
cherry-pick statistics and look at a decrease from 2020 to 2022 and
proclaim that it's "Safety Inflation" that has caused the drop.

I still recall one anti-helmet website that first claimed that cycling
rates fell after a helmet law somewhere was adopted. When it was pointed
out that cycling rates actually increased they changed their narrative
to "well cycling rates increased slower than population increased so the
rate as a percentage of the population decreased even though the
absolute number increased." It's like dealing with Trump supporters,
facts and logic are of no use.