Or don’t buy them

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So is there an answer for this other than just do away with football and other contact sports? Is it realistic to develop helmets that can minimize concussions and head trauma enough that playing contact sports isn't a huge risk? The issue is football is ingrained in the culture of a huge part of the US, especially in the south and Midwest. It seems very difficult to just say "no more football" and get any results.

Yep, in 20 years we will talking about super coating PFAs that are 10x more harmful.

Cool, so you're both short sighted and willing to harm others for your convenience.

A cultural shift is required. People don't *want* their clothes to last a long time. Various marketing efforts over the past hundred years have convinced us to care about fast fashion.

There was a time when "fashion" was just for fops and dandies. In order for sustainable clothing to be a thing, we need to return to that attitude.

Mt Siani has a great CTE team of neurologists who work with the Concussion Legacy Foundation and others doing deep research. They are studying brains from all sports and actively recruiting from more than just the nfl for studies and brain donations.

It's another fallacy. That this is only one study and not enough research. It's a massive effort now.

I'm typing this post when just a couple of years ago, I could not. So there is hope even if it's for short windows. But it's there and there is help coming. It won't be fast enough to save some of us, but we're trying.

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Who can afford that?

Bruh. if it's the difference between dying today of cold and dying of chemicals in a few decades, I'll take it.

> Not to say this isn’t very positive and reducing a problem vastly is great. But a coating that will wear off over years is pretty much a Band-Aid.

Not if you're a company who advertises it as "environmentally safe" and reaps the profits unfortunately. I can see this being used in that way, and this is a perfect advertisement for that. As you said, doesn't really "help" the environment or problem at all aside from making things last a bit longer before they start shedding microplastics. Doesn't mean a company won't use this with manipulative advertising.

I mean, it's been what humanity as a whole has been doing forever. We discover some amazing perfect new solution and invest heavily, until 20 years later we learn it's not as good/safe as we initially thought.

Yup. Any traumatic brain injury is rough.

Look at the number of Nascar drivers with cte and cte type symptoms. Earnhardt Jr. retired due to repeated traumatic brain injury.

10 years from now*.. so apparently the synthetic coating used on clothes to not shed miroplastic is a source of super cancer.

I was just thinking that wheels would be better anyway. Not only would they be more stable, but they would force more city planners to consider wheelchair movement.

It sounds like you're saying that doubling the life of our clothes isn't worth it because we can't make them last forever.

This is a plan that will result in a significant reduction of microplastic in washwater, even if the coating eventually does wear off.

That's the hard part.

My kids are young, and my son wants to play things I did. He's also watching me die from the long-term effects of being a pro athlete in my 20s and 30s.

It's hard to properly teach my kids that sports have consequences long after the now without squashing hopes and dreams.

I want him to play the sports he wants, but it's difficult knowing some are not safe at any level, unfortunately. There's no safe way to beat physics of the law of motion and protect your brain. We're humans, not woodpeckers, with special engineering to protect their brains.

Lemme guess...it uses PFAs

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I smoke all day. Helps with pain and the boredom of having to sit all day when I used to run every morning. God, I'd go insane if it weren't for pot. Seriously. Pot doesn't seem to kill pain as much as diverts your awareness onto other stimuli. The pain is still there, similar to pain pills that just make you so you don't care about the pain. Narcotics don't kill pain, they down you our til you just don't care about the pain

I love wool but I really wish it was more durable.

It's been in pill form, called marinol, for a very long time, but is primarily prescribed to people with AIDS, cf, or people undergoing chemo.

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Surprise, it’s a dose ranging study. You’ll be hit with increasingly larger hammers until you sustain a concussion.