Sarcasm is not a rhetorical device, and I don't believe anyone was trying to hurt feelings.
If you feel the need to make a joke like that, which is unfunny and makes you look like you don't understand things, you should expect some inbound explanations.
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That's not an antivax thing to say, or rhetoric at all.
They're saying "sure, seat belts occasionally break ribs, but consider that in the context of all the windshields you didn't get thrown through"
I think he was using a rhetorical device called sarcasm.
Sarcasm is not a rhetorical device, and I don't believe anyone was trying to hurt feelings.
If you feel the need to make a joke like that, which is unfunny and makes you look like you don't understand things, you should expect some inbound explanations.