Australian school makes sunglasses compulsory for pupils

[William]

Sily..   Your Bright!  ;)  or is it Brite?

[DreamTime]

Guess it's time for me to start staring into the sun. Maybe it will burn away the cataracts that are in my eyes...

[Sily]

Sily..   Your Bright!  ;)  or is it Brite?

Well, very kind William... it is "you're bright".

I so appreciate your compliment -- I find that you have a way about you that is very, very appealing.  And I will believe that until the day you drop a piano on my head.  :nod:

[Astrojewels]

Interesting article but I would like to see anyone stare into the Australian sun for more than an hour and come away ok, it is just too bright and would damage your eyes; we all have wrinkles around our eyes from squinting in the summer time!
The other thing that I did not think about, was the lack of direct vitamin D that the children would miss out on, wearing sunglasses would filter that. Perhaps that is the reason why they want to do this? Children are playing less and less outdoors and we have a massive increase with childhood sickness.

[AndrewX]

Yeah Karen, my greatest concern would be the hole in our ozone letting through abnormally larger amounts of UVA and UVB light into our visible spectrum. It's the UV light we cannot see that does ALL the damage. The article was written by those in the northern hemisphere who DO NOT have a gaping big hole in their Ozone.

Also keeping in mind that I have spent many a whole day in jeans without a top at all, not even a singlet or T-shirt in the Mediteranean Sun on 35-40C days... and all I do is turn into a chocolate drop. Yet 1 hour in our midday summer Sun would painfully scorch me glowing red/pink.

I have no doubt that those who have not experianced our Sun Karen would be shocked at its' extreme intensity. Even in completly overcast midday Summer weather you are no better off. It'll go through the thickest of clouds as if they were not even there. It's no wonder Sunscreen companies thrive here.

[Astrojewels]

We know the views from the scientist, but what are your thoughts on the ozone layer over OZ?

We talked awhile ago about sunscreen alternatives but there is none! You have no choice but to wear it here in OZ, last year my daughter and her teen girlfriends were over, swimming and getting that OZ bronze look and one of them refused the ‘broad spectrum’ she lathered herself with coconut oil, and to her disappointment could not walk for 3 days and the skin was so burnt it peeled off, so the only thing she achieved was pain. I grow aloe Vera and it is the only thing that works on burnt skin.
People presume too much Andrew X.