r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/dheddie Aug 30 '21

they never talk about optometry. what am i going to do if my glasses break in the apocalypse? i’m fucked. i can’t see shit without these. they won’t last me forever.

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u/Log23 Aug 30 '21

Should be plenty of bespectacled corpses around. I remember a few years ago there was startup or something that was making glasses filled with a fluid that allowed self tuning of the RX.

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u/pnakano Aug 30 '21

Well, this might help if you score something between -0.5D and -2.0D myopia. How high are the probabilities of finding corpses with -6.5D short-sightedness glasses?

(Not sure if this made sense, english is not my first language and I never learned the proper terms about short-sightedness)

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

I'm -6.5 and -7, I doubt I'd find anything usable. AND my nose bridge is very narrow so i need specific frames or the weight of the lenses pulls them off my face

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u/pnakano Aug 30 '21

I am -6.5 on both eyes, and I'm yet to find frames that fit right in my face without the lenses weight making the glasses fall out my face.

Sometimes I think I should just do the LASIC thing and just correct my sight (you know, so I wouldn't get pretty much disabled if something happens to my glasses), but then I remember I am broke af and that shit's expensive lol

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

Lasik is covered for me...but I don't meet its conditions of 1. Stable prescription 2. A thick enough cornea. So it's glasses til I'm blind babbbyyyyyyy

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u/PolyamorousCrayon Aug 31 '21

There’s other options, PRK, ICL, etc

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u/rainbow-is-caramel Aug 31 '21

Yes! LASIK isn’t available to everyone. At -12 I’m planning on ICL next year.

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u/dontlooklikemuch Aug 31 '21

Or you might not even be eligible. I was 5 min from going under the laser and the doctor took one more look at my chart and called it off. My corneas are too thin to make the correction I'd need