Barry Baines
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 3 Apr
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Uh, fortunately as you go flying at 40 miles an hour, uh, you know, into your, uh, steering wheel, which, uh, uh, it used to serve as a spear, uh, the way they weren't collapsible or putting your head through the windshield. But what's very interesting is how other countries have really ramped up their seatbelt use.
And one of them is actually providing, in particular, Great Britain and Australia, that actually in their public service announcements and trying to get people to wear seatbelts, use rather graphic advertisements that actually show what happened to people who didn't wear their seatbelts. It's quite gruesome if you have seen those. And it's real. I mean, this is what happens.
And most people don't have a clue of what these things are about. Oh, wear a seatbelt. Oh, what is it like? And one of the things that's interesting is that in the United States, they tend to downplay what actually happens to people in those situations. And that actually runs over also to firearms.
That, you know, other than the tragedies of firearms and, you know, say, oh, you know, you're in my thoughts and prayers now. Maybe, you know, sort of being more realistic about what happens when things go awry and might get people to think twice about it. I know that the seatbelt usage in other countries that have used this method has really made a difference where people think twice.
The flip side of that is that cars are getting safer and safer, certainly with airbags. But again, you need to be wearing your seatbelt to do that. People come out of crashes that you know, not even that many years ago, you'd be dead. I mean, or if you survived, you'd, you know, go on again into quality of life things. But if you survived, you're so injured that it's just a long road back.
Let me put it that way. So you really do need to wear your seatbelt to stay safe. And that certainly carries over again to the car seat use and having kids in the backseat until they're actually a certain size or shape to be able to sit in front. That's my little mini sermon there on car safety and stuff. And Stan, I took that course, I did a re-up on that senior citizens driving course.
And so- You know about it. It's always very revealing and very, very interesting. And so you have some thoughts.
Again, I just echo, Stan, what you said. And to build on that, people should understand that there are so many things that you could do. You can't spend the rest of your life just making your home safe. I mean, from a realistic perspective. But number one is understand what the biggest risks are and do something. You know, take some action. If you can't do it all, that's okay, but get a start.
And also there are resources within the community, I believe, for getting some of the safety measures, certainly in home for kids. You know, parents can get free car seats for their kids. Correct.
As one example, I think there's a lot of community resources getting the plugs for your outlets, you know, the safety plugs on that, so that there are resources, and I'm assuming that we might have some linkages in our on the website that might help people to get that, or to ask their health provider or within their community what resources are available.
Because in this case, really, an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure when it comes to safety. Absolutely.
Yeah, I'd like to say I'm an orphan in terms of my, both my, you know, once your parents are gone, and my parents died, you know, in a good number of years ago in 1990 and 1993, my dad first and then my mom, and my in-laws also now have passed with, so they're all gone. And one of the things that
to me that that always is important is understanding that even though your loved ones are gone it doesn't end the relationship that you have with them or that you had with them it's different you know because they're they're not there and I think one of the fears that
that I used to have, but I figured out a way to get around it is I worry that I'm, you know, that I'm going to forget about them and forget about that relationship. And so for me, when, when I lose a loved one, I want to ensure a way that I can remember them. And, you know, like I said, I've done, you know, a show on ethical wills where you kind of leave your values and things like that.
So I always try and carry some legacy that, from loved ones. And that always rekindles the relationship and just makes it easier because the grief never totally goes away. It's always with you, this idea of get over it. It's more, how do you integrate yourself as a person with losses? Because all of us have losses
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