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Daylight savings time causes accidents on the road and in workplaces as people are thrown off by the sleep pattern changes.
6-12% increase in car accidents and 6% increase in workplace accidents during the week following the time change.
It’s also been proven to increase heart attacks, and other health issues as well.
And as someone who worked as a CNA in memory care for a few years, I can also testify that it fucks with people with dementia or Alzheimer’s.
I hated working shifts the first week of a time change because it never failed that we’d have multiple code calls, and agitated patients.
Right... they're not saying make no changes.
Permanent DST is the bad choice, permanent standard time should be the change. Health professionals and researchers have said this every time this is brought up, but for whatever reason the politicians always want to go with the shitty choice.
No. Permanent dlst is the good choice. Getting home at 5pm after it's already dark sucks ass for kids and adults both.
Those professionals can go fuck themselves... In the dark cause itll be dark if they get their way.
So... it would be dark before/after work even more than our current system where we change it 2x every year? Fuck that.
Or you know they could just change the hours things are open. There's no reason things need to be open hours like 9-5 specifically.
Permanent dst would fix problems caused by the change.
So would permanent standard time, but with fewer side effects.
I think a 30 minute change would clear it all up. Halfway between both times would half any positives or negatives.
Yeah.... The change. That's why dlst should be permanent. No more getting home and having it already be dark outside.