Yes, it is clearly a criminal offense to intentionally and non-consensually expose someone to unlawful levels of noise that can reasonably be foreseen to damage hearing of an average person, and should be civilly liable for additional injury to people who could not be reasonably foreseen to suffer injury due to the noise, but who nevertheless suffered injury.
Many thanks for the excellent, detailed explanation. Sometimes I regret those many times in my youth when I went to concerts at the Fillmore West or Winterland, getting right up to the stage by the giant amps and speakers...a lot of us must have some hearing loss from those good old days.
Really interesting too about the US police having the right to not help, but they can't discriminate with it! I never thought about that. "Feel free not to help, but be sure you don't help ANYONE, or you can be accused of discrimination." Sometimes this country boggles the mind.
Thanks for the tip! I should do that -- I didn't know a hearing test could tell where the damage came from. Very interesting. I definitely do have some small hearing loss, I always assumed it came from that LOUD music...would be great to find out.
Great helpful advice 👍 strange the the police have the right not to help what happened to protect and serve or is that only applicable to trans terrorists?
The police have an obligationt to protect the community/government, which may at times come into conflict with protecting you. However, if they do not protect you equally to other community members because you are a member of a protected class, you have been denied your right to equal protection.
Thanks for this explanation, the police need to protect people from nutcases who put sirens into their ears and bang blocks, push, shove, break fingers, steal other peoples placards, spit in your face and surround you in a scene reminiscent of a game of thrones episode called battle of the bastards, even if only to separate the crowd so that rights are protected of both parties. The police need to look at the small portion of women being treated like this for simply speaking and ask themselves if they would like their daughters, sisters, mums and grandmothers, aunts treated like this, the answer should be no.....HELL NO
This will have some effect (head shadow effect of turning one ear away from the noise and blocking it with your head, for instance, results in a 10-15 db reduction in the shielded ear), however if it is loud enough, it will just pass through the shield and may not be enough of a reduction from the loss of energy from conversion from air to solid conduction and back to be within a safe range for your ears.
Should this not then be a criminal offense to endanger ones hearing?
Yes, it is clearly a criminal offense to intentionally and non-consensually expose someone to unlawful levels of noise that can reasonably be foreseen to damage hearing of an average person, and should be civilly liable for additional injury to people who could not be reasonably foreseen to suffer injury due to the noise, but who nevertheless suffered injury.
Thanks for the advice! As someone whose entire maternal side has hearing loss, it is food for thought! ❤️
Many thanks for the excellent, detailed explanation. Sometimes I regret those many times in my youth when I went to concerts at the Fillmore West or Winterland, getting right up to the stage by the giant amps and speakers...a lot of us must have some hearing loss from those good old days.
Really interesting too about the US police having the right to not help, but they can't discriminate with it! I never thought about that. "Feel free not to help, but be sure you don't help ANYONE, or you can be accused of discrimination." Sometimes this country boggles the mind.
If you get a hearing test they'll be able to tell from the audiogram whether any hearing loss you have is related to noise exposure
Thanks for the tip! I should do that -- I didn't know a hearing test could tell where the damage came from. Very interesting. I definitely do have some small hearing loss, I always assumed it came from that LOUD music...would be great to find out.
ty for this. can you write and make this twitter-shareable? eds/cfids/ME people really, really need to know this.
Yes it should be shareable now or within a few minutes.
Great helpful advice 👍 strange the the police have the right not to help what happened to protect and serve or is that only applicable to trans terrorists?
The police have an obligationt to protect the community/government, which may at times come into conflict with protecting you. However, if they do not protect you equally to other community members because you are a member of a protected class, you have been denied your right to equal protection.
Thanks for this explanation, the police need to protect people from nutcases who put sirens into their ears and bang blocks, push, shove, break fingers, steal other peoples placards, spit in your face and surround you in a scene reminiscent of a game of thrones episode called battle of the bastards, even if only to separate the crowd so that rights are protected of both parties. The police need to look at the small portion of women being treated like this for simply speaking and ask themselves if they would like their daughters, sisters, mums and grandmothers, aunts treated like this, the answer should be no.....HELL NO
Important Information.👏👍. Makes the tras actions even more pernicious than they already are. Thank You ❤️👍
Great way to do this is hold a board to block the soundwave
This will have some effect (head shadow effect of turning one ear away from the noise and blocking it with your head, for instance, results in a 10-15 db reduction in the shielded ear), however if it is loud enough, it will just pass through the shield and may not be enough of a reduction from the loss of energy from conversion from air to solid conduction and back to be within a safe range for your ears.