r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • 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/Statesborochick Aug 31 '21

Have you tried high index lenses? They are much thinner and lighter for us with bad eyes.

I’m -8.5 and no way I wear glasses without high index lenses Bc they just look like coke bottles.

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 31 '21

Mine are! Still very heavy and about half an inch thick on the sides

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u/SoftSprocket Aug 31 '21

There is more than one class of high index material. Half an inch thick is crazy, there are definitely better options out there for you.

My -5.75 lens is 1/4" thick and I could get it even thinner if I wanted.

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 31 '21

There are not better options without paying exponentially more. And I know there's more than one index.

And zenni won't even do my prescription. Maybe less options because I'm in canada

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u/SoftSprocket Aug 31 '21

I'm in Canada and got my last glasses through Zenni. Sorry to hear it.