It’s Quora day.
Yesterday I posted a video on YouTube, musing whether @endmyopia is “done”. Done, as in project complete, Jake can go dedicate those three hours a day to other stuff. If you haven’t watched that one yet, here:
Give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, you know the drill.
Today I stopped by Quora, and I think I might have answered my own question. Is @endmyopia done? I was hoping to say yes but apparently it’s actually …
As long as questions like what I’m about to show you float around, and the sort of answers you’ll see on there being pitched as “professional” more often than not, we’re not done. My blood pressure goes up anytime “doctors” pass off unsubstantiated, anecdotal non-evidence as fact. We can’t let that stuff just go on, right under our noses.
Check out proper unlicensed eye guru answers to two questions today:
Right? Right.
If you want to upvote my answer, head over here. I opted to answer this one since all too often overprescriptions create obvious symptoms in lens wearers and these symptoms are shrugged off as inconsequential and people are told “it takes time to get used to new glasses”.
Caveat, there are cases where it takes time to get used to lenses. Much less common scenarios than this whole premise of “takes time to get used to it” is passed around for, though.
Let’s peek at another answer from today:
Here too if you want to upvote, the original answer is here.
Despina is probably hating me right now. Sorry, Despina! We need some kind of code, words, to make a distinction between potentially less than ideal practices, and the not-bad-people practitioners who may be advocating them. I’m not great at this form of diplomacy (yet).
Two answers, two questions, a similar thread. People being sold focal plane changes that they simply don’t need, and that will in the long term pose a risk to their vision health. Don’t be mad at the optometrist, that’s how most are taught. Don’t be mad at the professors, that’s how they were taught.
Don’t be mad. Just make truth available and easy to find, for those who are looking for it.
Or use Photoshop:
Fortunately those two questions today weren’t besieged by moronic “doctors” and their “professional” opinions. Fortunately. (and if you think I’m exaggerating, look at some of the other questions I’ve answered on Quora, and the various professional alternative answers)
Quora is a curious place to go visit. You find yourself seeing a lot of what people ask, and what other people answer. It gives you a snapshot of various current realities. It’s hard to look at it, and not participate.
I guess the show must go on. Thanks to all of you who commented and e-mailed!
Cheers,
-Jake
