No matter what painstaking effort taken by board-certified, highly trained professionals,
you're always going to have a cheap @$$ school bus driver manually entering in their "prescriptions". Online glasses sellers are not face-to-face, don't have to read and retain a real prescription from a real professional, and
cannot make sure that everything was done properly, like adjusting pantoscopic tilt or vertex distance on progressives or high power lenses, or ensuring that there is no vertical imbalance due to hyperorbits or non-level lenses, etc. etc.
No, it's NOT feasible, because any responsible regulation would have to exclude so many people/professions that it would be ridiculous. We'd have to, instead of having professionals regulate vision care, have more frequent school screenings, driver's license screenings, CDL and FAA examinations, etc. because, and I'll say it again:
DEREGULATING VISION CARE SPITS IN THE EYE OF:
- Bureau of Motor Vehicle vision standards
- Federal Aviation vision standards
- Commercial drivers licenses
- School screenings
- State boards regulating optometry
- State boards regulating opticianry
- State boards regulating medicine
which are all set up to work with real professionals for the protection of all.
Oh, you guys shouldn't be regulated, right? Just everyone else. All those vision standards developed for public safety are to be ignored, because
they can buy online glasses from you or anyone, without a prescription and without professional oversight. All those school vision screenings may as well be discarded, because Johnny can pass the school screening on Monday with the glasses I made him, but
would flunk it on Tuesday with unregulated online glasses that are screwed up.
Hey, I could certify that FAA pilot on Monday, and give him a new and improved Rx, and
he can be flying you with the wrong glasses on Tuesday. Who's to know?
Your kid can get onto a school bus with bargain Bob who has poorly tinted sunglasses that induce the Pulfrich phenomenon.
Your wife can be driving down a dark two-lane highway in the rain and that semi driver coming at her can be overplussed by a half diopter reducing his reaction time enough to head-on collide.
Who are you kidding? Would you advocate this for any other medical profession? Do it yourself dentistry? Do it yourself hypertension treatment?
What possible rationale can anyone have for this?
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