Photo: Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images/iStockphoto I was trying to assess whether, after almost a year of social distancing and increased indoor time, after all the days hunched over my laptop and the nights watching movies and bad reality shows on my TV, if I could see the same as I did before the COVID era. I stood on one end of my living room and looked at a can of Wendy’s Baconator Pringles that was resting on the mantle above the fireplace at the other end.
Our culture has long been screen-centric, but has this past year specifically been harder on our eyes? Dr. Thomas Aller, a San Bruno, California, ophthalmologist, was concerned about what effect the pandemic would have on his myopic patients. He explained that hundreds of years of observational studies have suggested that “occupations that involve very close and detailed work tends to create nearsighted people.” In other words, if you spend a lot of time reading and looking at your computer, it could ruin your eyes’ ability to clearly see objects in the distance.
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