{"id":831707,"date":"2021-09-30T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=831707"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:59:34","slug":"follow-the-science-stanford-cyclists-prefer-masks-to-helmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/follow-the-science-stanford-cyclists-prefer-masks-to-helmets\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Science: Stanford Cyclists Prefer Masks to Helmets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffollow-the-science-stanford-cyclists-prefer-masks-to-helmets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=831707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bike-libs.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Cyclists on the Stanford University campus are more than twice as likely to wear a face mask while riding their stupid bicycles outside than they are a helmet that might actually save their lives, according to a recently published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/stanford-bicycles-helmets-masks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Meyer, editor in chief of the <em>Stanford Review<\/em>, observed 400 cyclists on Stanford&#8217;s campus, where nearly everyone has received a COVID-19 vaccine. In the interest of providing context, Stanford is an elite university for &#8220;smart&#8221; people. Most of the students\u2014especially the ones on bicycles\u2014are raging libs.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer wanted to see if a trend he had observed in the spring\u2014cyclists wearing masks but not helmets\u2014would continue now that nearly everyone on campus had been vaccinated. (It would.)<\/p>\n<p>Of the 400 cyclists observed, most (49 percent) were wearing neither a mask nor a helmet. A whopping 34 percent of the Stanford cyclists, however, wore masks but not helmets. One in 10 wore only a helmet, and just 7 percent wore both. Again, this is at one of the country&#8217;s leading institutions of higher education, particularly in the field of &#8220;science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to said science, wearing a face mask outside is essentially pointless in terms of protecting yourself from COVID-19, especially if you&#8217;re vaccinated. But it is, rather ironically, a great way for libs to symbolically express their belief in science to their fellow libs. Such is the world we are living in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seemingly intelligent and well-rounded people (Stanford students, for example) have adopted bizarre, pointless habits to comport with new expectations about how to \u2018stay safe&#8217;\u2014like wearing masks outdoors\u2014all while continuing in much more risky behaviors,&#8221; Meyer writes. &#8220;This is not to say that riding a bicycle without a helmet is *especially* risky, or that I believe helmets should be mandated (they shouldn&#8217;t). But it&#8217;s absolutely a bigger risk than COVID-19 for a vaccinated twenty-something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there&#8217;s an alternative. In the words of the Baltimore FedEx driver whose actions earned him a 2020 <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2020-man-of-the-year-anti-cyclist-fedex-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man of the Year<\/a> award: &#8220;Get a car.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclists on the Stanford University campus are more than twice as likely to wear a face mask while riding their stupid bicycles outside than they are a helmet that might &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}