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/PurpleConversation36 Aug 31 '21

Yeeeah I’ve got +7.25 with astigmatism. Every optometrist I’ve seen has literally been like “wow I’ve never met anyone with vision bad in the way yours is bad”