People spend about 34 years of their life staring at screens, according to a new survey.

Just wait until they account for the new lockdown lifestyle.

People in America are already spending around 8 hours a day watching TV programs and movies during the lockdown, and considering that the coronavirus and virus in general won’t magically disappear, this new Netflix house arrest way of living appears to be here to stay.

Daily Mail:

People will spend about 34 years of their lives staring at computer, phone or television screens according to a new survey.

A study for Vision Direct polled 2,000 Brits and found they spent ore than 4,866 hours per year glued to screens but most said it wasn’t ‘productive time’.

Up to three-and-a-half hours a day will be spent looking at TV screens, with at least four hours staring at laptops, and two hours and 25 minutes gazing at phones.

Of the people surveyed 64 per cent admitted they wouldn’t know what to do without their screen time, especially during the lockdown.

The study, conducted by OnePoll.com, found that it takes less than 20 minutes for the average adult to look at a screen after waking up each day.

Nearly a third of those responding to the survey looked at their phone within five minutes of waking up in the morning.

E-readers and gaming devices also contribute to a total of more than 13 hours a day spent looking at a screen.

People are really struggling to cope without their screen, with 17 per cent saying they feel anxious if they are away from their phone for too long.

Benjamin Dumaine, optician and head of business development for Vision Direct, said we are lucky to have devices that connect us to the world while in lockdown.

‘A similar pandemic taking place 30 or 40 years ago would have seen people coping with the lack of contact in very different ways,’ he said.

‘However, it’s important to be aware of what excess screen time can do in terms of your eye health and keep on top of overdoing it when it comes to screens.

‘We’d suggest making the most of the government’s advice to exercise, to help give that essential screen break.’

Laptops or computer screens are what Brits spend most time looking at, followed by their phones, TVs and tablets.

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Four in 10 parents think their kids spend too long glued to their gaming devices or phones, and a fifth find it challenging to manage how much screen time they get.

A further 12 per cent feel guilty about how much time their offspring spend looking at TVs or computers,’ the study revealed.

But more than two-thirds feel hypocritical for telling their kids off about screen time, when the adults in the house are just as guilty.

It also emerged that since lockdown measures were brought in, the amount of video calls the average Brit would have a week has more than doubled, according to the OnePoll.com figures.

Did you catch that?

One of the most insidious, pervasive, and corrosive ideas of our culture: the idea that adults and kids are somehow on equal terms, and that adults would be hypocritical to tell kids not to do something that adults do.

Just so you understand how insane this is, imagine feeling hypocritical for telling a kid not to have sex because you, an adult, have sex.

Imagine feeling hypocritical for telling a kid not to drink five cups of coffee a day because you, an adult, drink five cups of coffee a day.

At its core, this equality lunacy is the same thing that allowed things like feminism to prosper.

Men feeling hypocritical for telling women off about male things is the same as adults feeling hypocritical for telling kids off about doing adult stuff.

Pictured: parenting failure.

Contrary to popular belief, early exposure to technology doesn’t make kids smarter.

In fact, it appears that it sets them up for failure later in life.

Study Finds:

With millions of children stuck at home during the coronavirus outbreak, digital learning has become the new normal. Although televisions and mobile devices might help students pass the time off from class, new research says parents should be keeping screens away from their toddlers.

According to researchers at the University of California, Davis, children who are exposed to screen media at an early age have a harder time controlling their behavior. Amanda C. Lawrence, the study’s lead author, says using screen media devices too early results in a lower ability to self-regulate.

More than 50 children, between 32 and 47 months-old, were observed during the two-and-a-half-year study. Preschoolers who started using devices early on struggled with the skills needed to plan and monitor their thoughts and feelings. The researchers add self-regulating skills can predict academic success, physical and mental health, and even in criminal behavior later in life.

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Lawrence says mobile devices are especially problematic because they interfere with a child’s ability to develop socially outside of the home.

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The study also found that a family’s race and income did not affect the results, but children from wealthier families were more likely to start using media devices at a younger age.

Using mobile devices tends to stunt the social, emotional and psychological development of older kids and teenagers as well.

We should also note what it is doing to the posture of our nations’ most important resource: stupid white whores.

New generations have a harder time interacting face to face, and often run into problems when trying to have conversations that aren’t shielded by screens.

One can only imagine the true extent of exposing little kids to these brain-rewiring devices full of apps and games that are specifically designed to have an addicting effect.

The list of “21st century regrets” is the longest of the long lists. 

There’s a world outside.

Some people like to say that you are what you eat, but considering that lions aren’t gazelles, perhaps we’d be better off trying to solve our existential questions by looking at what we do with our lives instead.

I’m not saying that you are what you do, but these scientists suggest that if you spend most of your time contorted in a pretty disgusting position, you’ll turn into a pretty disgusting creature.

Daily Mail:

She’s got a hunched back, swollen limbs and bloodshot eyes — and in twenty years, you’ll be just like her if you don’t improve your working conditions, experts warn.

‘Emma’ — the sickly work colleague of the future — is a life-sized dummy built to show how sitting all day at ergonomically-unfriendly desk might affect workers.

This cautionary vision was cooked up by researchers after interviews with more than 3,000 employees about their health issues and concerns.

The team call for radical changes to the way we work — including more ergonomic office future and breaks to get staff off of their seats and moving about.

This is what a feminist looks like:

Strong, empowered, and independent.

That’s quite a disgusting sight.

Here’s a lion cub to wash your eyes with:

Offices should be mandated by law to offer standing desks.

Behavioural Futurist William Higham and a team of experts from the fields of ergonomics, occupational health and professional well-being set out to investigate the effects that office workplaces are having on employee health.

Based on surveys of more than 3,000 workers in France, Germany and the UK, the team predicted how offices might change the human body over the next 20 years.

From their findings, which were commissioned by office equipment firm Fellowes, the researchers teamed up with model specialists Helix 3D Ltd to create ‘Emma’ — a disturbingly distorted life-sized mannequin to illustrate the potential impact of modern workstations on our bodies.

Poor Emma has a permanently hunched posture sitting for hours every day over her desk, dry red eyes from prolonged exposure to a computer screen and sallow skin for spending years trapped under the glare of artificial light.

‘The Work Colleague of the Future report shows that employers and workers really need to act now and address the problem of poor workplace health,’ said Mr Higham.

‘Unless we make radical changes to our working lives, such as moving more, addressing our posture at our desks, taking regular walking breaks or considering improving our workstation setup, our offices are going to make us very sick.’

‘As a result, workers in the future could suffer health problems as bad as those we thought we’d left behind in the Industrial Revolution.’

The researchers found that office workers spend an average of six hours sitting at a desk each day.

They may spend an average of six hours sitting at a desk each day, but what about sitting on a couch?

More than 90 per cent of those surveyed reported being concerned that this was too much time — and 98 per cent fearing such could lead to future health problems.

In the UK, the team found that 90 per cent of office workers reported experiencing health issues that reduced their productivity and almost half suffer from eye strain, sore backs and headaches caused by their workspace.

Work-related sick days cost the economy £77 billion every year.

Furthermore, seven out of ten workers reported turning to medications to combat these problems.

Yeah, it’s not enough to show that the working conditions deform and harm the human body — you have to show that the economy is hurt too!

‘Over time, sitting at a desk all day is going to have profound effect on office workers’ health, both physically and psychologically,’ said ergonomics expert and report contributor Stephen Bowden.

‘Steps should be taken to ensure normal everyday movements become part of the job. One way to get people moving and reducing the time they sit for is consider more ergonomic furniture in the workplace, such as sit stand desks.’

These, he added, can help to prevent workers from developing long-term health conditions.

Working conditions may be horrible, but at least you’re in control of the rest of your day.

Taking a walk, playing a sport, exercising, and even just spending time standing are all things that will help you escape poor Emma’s fate.

Bad idea.

Nowadays, children are raised by tablets and venomous school teachers while their moms empower themselves clicking Excel sheets in an office and their dads contemplate suicide as they run the child support and alimony numbers in the quietness of their toilet sanctuary.

Contrary to what anyone could have predicted, that has serious adverse effects on the kids.

Daily Mail:

Children are risking short-sightedness unless they spend two hours a day outside and ditch screens and homework books, say experts.

A new epidemic of myopia in youngsters has been directly linked to the amount of time they spend doing ‘nearwork’.

Scientists have also predicted a rise in the numbers of people who will become blind in later life because people who develop short-sightedness at a young age have a higher risk of eye problems when they get older.

Some specialists believe the condition should be renamed ‘school myopia’ because the increase in diagnoses is so steep.

About 20 per cent of under-16s in the UK are short-sighted, compared with just 7.2 per cent in the 1960s.

Dr Clare Quigley, an opthalmologist at Galway University Hospital, conducted a study researching the lifestyles and health of 8,568 nine-year-olds which found a strong connection between the condition and a sedentary lifestyle.

She told the Sunday Times: ‘The factors that consistently appear most important in development of myopia are education and time spent indoors … more education is associated with greater myopia.’

Attending school damages kids’ eyesight, but at least it teaches them about The Holocaust.

Imagine all the things that kids could learn in the years they waste sitting in school listening to some viper rant about toxic masculinity if only the education system wasn’t designed to crush their souls.

Until now myopia has been seen mainly as a genetic condition but new research is now able to not only confirm, but quantify, how ‘nearwork’ can damage children’s vision.

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The condition is far more common in westernised societies when compared with those who live outdoor lifestyles.

Experts predict roughly 50 per cent of people will have myopia by 2050, an 20 per cent increase to the number who are now.

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In order to curb the increase, some people have suggested that opticians give out lifestyle prescriptions as well as medical ones by telling people to send children outside.

Medical prescriptions telling people to send their kids to play outside is a good idea, but an even better idea would be to turn two of the hours kids already spend in school into mandatory outside-play time.

It would be like a 2-hour recess where kids can socialize, play, make new friends, and do healthy kid stuff. Additionally, it would decrease the amount of time kids spend sitting in the classroom, which is a great thing, considering what we know about the sedentary lifestyle.

The Conversation:

As a society, we aren’t getting as much exercise as we should. In fact, current activity guidelines state that adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderately intense activity – or 75 minutes of vigorous activity – every week. But research has found that one in four adults aren’t active enough.

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Our research looked at what effect even short periods of physical inactivity had on our bodies. We found that even just two weeks of low activity actually increased participants’ risk of later developing serious health conditions such as cardiovascular disease.

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We know that physical activity is good for us. This is irrefutable, and we’ve known this for a long time. As far back as the 1950s, the link between day-to-day physical activity and health was first identified in the London transport workers study.

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Since then, some have branded physical activity a “miracle cure” for cardiovascular risk. Yet, as a society, we are more sedentary than ever, and cardiovascular-related deaths remain the leading cause of death worldwide.

What better way to ensure kids get enough physical activity and enough outdoor time than by integrating it into the school curriculum?

More play time, more socializing, more activity. Less sitting, less brainwashing, less passivity.

Shocker: Your eyes are designed for looking at objects that are more than a few inches away from your face.

Study Finds:

So many people, especially young people and teenagers, spend a significant period of time each day staring at a screen of some kind, whether that be a computer, smartphone, tablet, or the regular old TV. Now, a new study is warning parents that all that screen time may be behind a stunning rise in children who need prescription glasses.

According to the report released by United Kingdom-based eye care company Scrivens Opticians, the percentage of 13-16 year olds in the U.K. who need glasses has nearly doubled over the past seven years — from 20% in 2012 to 35% in 2018. Two-thirds of those teens were diagnosed as being myopic, or short-sighted.

Researchers theorize that this significant increase in eye problems among young people is likely linked to excessive time spent staring at screens, which can lead to eye strain, shortsightedness, and blurred vision. In fact, the study also found that the average 13-16 year old spends around 26 hours per week staring at a smartphone, playing video games, or watching TV.

Overall, optometrists from Scrivens say that much more research is needed to determine what all this screen time is really doing to teens’ eyes, especially in the long-term.

Like everything else in the modern world, spending all day staring at objects right in front of your face is a society-wide experiment with unknown yet predictably bad consequences that Our Leaders have decided to engage in because we are willing to partake in it.

The best remedy for this, obviously, is to not screw around on your phone all day. Aside from your eyes, mass cell phone usage is most likely a sign of the coming Antichrist.

However, even if you can put down the phone, many or most of you probably have to use a computer for hours upon hours at work every day (if you’re lucky enough to only spend an hour a day reading this website, you are luckier than most).

Even if you can avoid eye problems (and if you’re an adult, you probably can), you are still going to be dealing with massive problems with your posture at most workstations.

If you have real screen work to do, don’t do this:

Make sure your screen is at the right distance and at eye level, and your keyboard is at hand level. You may need to put your monitor on top of something to bring it up to your level. It’s impossible to achieve both of these objectives at the same time with a laptop, so get a real keyboard for your workstation.

If you want to really be comfortable and your legs haven’t calcified yet, just unscrew the armrests and the back from your office chair so that your back straightens under your own weight, and so that can switch between sitting cross-legged, sitting on your ankles, etc.

You can also demand that your workplace provide you with a standing desk. If they refuse, you can get a letter from a doctor very easily by just saying you have posture and lower back problems.

But the bottom line is that these devices are not good for anyone.

Whenever you can, go outside.

And go to the gym to counteract the problems that they cause your body.