[BlindTlk] Using a walker?

[Jude DaShiell]

There is a reason several walkers for babies are on the recall list.
Those walkers aren't safe for babies.  Babies being shorter than the rest
of us, use of walkers with taller people with higher centers of gravity
only magnify the safety risks.  Wearing a flying suit with enough helium
inside to produce neutral buoyancy would lower safety concerns to some
extent but not entirely.  The reason such a solution with a walker
wouldn't lower the risk is because of something in physics known as mass.
Translated, if a car hits a person and the car is moving at less than 5
miles per hour when it happens, that person is likely to be picked up off
the ground and tossed for several feet before falling.  I know, I had it
happen to me.  When a fall starts to happen mass increases steadily until
the fall is interrupted.  If there's too much mass say anything over 86
feet, a human has reached terminal velocity and that human will not
survive that fall without protective safety equipment that works up to
specifications.  That's why cliff diving is limited to less than 100 feet.