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Are there any stats on the scale of laser eye injuries?

Like what percentage of the world population are blind because of laser injuries? What percentage have permanent vision issues?

How do those compare with the number of people who work with lasers?

How does it compare with say vision loss from arc welding?




it's hard to know if you have eye damage, we have big blind spots right in the center of our eyes that we are not aware of.

our brain can fill out missing data from context and the same happens with eye damage.

with progressing damage you will see normally until you cross some threshold where your brain gives up and you are then blind




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