Studies show: safety precautions and regulations are often very effective. In a wide range of areas, they protect people from harm.

There are denialists who argue that every safety precaution is ultimately worthless, because it will encourage so much reckless behavior as to negate the benefit. The figures show they are wrong, wrong, wrong.

Their mistake is not to recognize that the precautions may encourage some people to be somewhat more reckless, but that isn't a big enough problem to outweigh the direct benefit of the precaution.

What does encourage recklessness is believing disinformation that attacks safety measures.

So get vaccinated, and use your seat belt, your helmet, your condom, and your mask!