Resurfaced '80s Clip Of People Lashing Out About Seatbelt Mandates Feels Eerily Familiar

This clip from the Daily Show of people fighting against seat belt mandates in the 80s is absolutely surreal from start to finish given today's climate on both masks and COVID vaccines.pic.twitter.com/IiR8iavlyN

— Josh Jordan (@Josh Jordan) 1631752747

Just goes to show - stupid never sleeps. \nAnd notice how everyone is smoking? Remember when all the bar and restaurant owners were saying they would go out of business if people couldn't smoke?

— kirkbrooks (@kirkbrooks) 1631754959

Seat belt laws were the mask mandates of the 80's it appears.https://twitter.com/MarcIstook/status/1438247133262585859\u00a0\u2026

— Kody\ud83d\udd36\ufe0f (@Kody\ud83d\udd36\ufe0f) 1631742006

The same people have been wrong about everything -- EVERY DAMN THING -- for the past 60 years. Eventually, society moves on without them. This time, people are dying because of them. The dead do not move on.

— Paul Curran (@Paul Curran) 1631758753

I was around then. Water cooler talk was "How will they PROVE I wasn't wearing it?" and strategies around defeating the seat belt alarm.\n\nThen the insurance companies said they'd double rates in states that didn't make it a law, and voila.\n\nAntivax needs a cash penalty.

— Ironing Man, Starch Industries, \ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc89Pfizer (@Ironing Man, Starch Industries, \ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc89Pfizer) 1631811355

I'd forgotten the insurance component. Seems like Americans need to be punished into compliance with laws that are meant to save their lives.

— michael slater \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f (@michael slater \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f) 1631898768

With seat belt laws, people understood that police and medics were tired of scraping people off the pavement. Wish they had the same understanding and compassion for doctors and nurses.

— Snowshark (@Snowshark) 1631807200

Remember when these same people said outlawing smoking in restaurants was going to kill the restaurant industry?

— Nancy Rutman (@Nancy Rutman) 1631755084

It's really not hard to understand. Certain people simply never emotionally mature. They remain teenagers in mentality, children essentially. Tell them to do something and they freak out and find any excuse not to. Just because. All rights, no responsibility.

— MothraStewart (@MothraStewart) 1632181728

This rings so true about the vaccine. Seat belts save lives and vaccines do too. Why would anyone be against something that saves lives?

— Dianne Callahan (@Dianne Callahan) 1631758427

This is how anti masker and and antivaxers sound. #GetVaccinatedNowpic.twitter.com/NRQyqouk8r

— Dave Stanley (@Dave Stanley) 1631895620

History: \u201cthe record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous\nbumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma." \n- Aldous Huxley, \u201cIsland\u201d

— GammaMa Donna (@GammaMa Donna) 1631759840