Originally Posted by
base2
As asked before:
So my actual question is: "Why do people, usually the anti-helmet crowd, but not always, tend to conflate brain injury statistics with death statistics?"
Because, as answered before, in the (pre-accident) minds of many they are one and the same. Brain injury = 'death'. I don't think that is overstating things. Ever meet someone post head trauma from a motorcycle or bicycle accident? Its not pretty. Very difficult IMO to say with a straight face that they survived the accident.