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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Why do all pregnant women in China wear the same apron?
Just wondering... is it so everyone knows that they're pregnant, so they can get a seat on the bus?
It's because they all have the same partner who got them pregnant.
When Chinese enter new experiences I find they follow each other almost without question. They all do the same thing because they figure if it worked for another...
just like the stupid rumors to wear radiation aprons around computers. They just prefer to follow because thinking is too hard to complicated.
I read a couple of time that the apron have a thin layer of lead inside, to protect the baby from electromagnetic radiation from things like computer screens. Anybody to confirm or infirm this ?
http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/phpbbforum/pregnant-radiation-aprons-t137188.html
http://sell.bizrice.com/selling-leads/335664/Anti-radiation-clothing-for-pregnant-women-radiation-stop-maternity-clothes-apron.html
http://weiku.com/products/10328848/Anti_radiation_clothing_for_pregnant_women_radiation_stop_maternity_clothes_apron.html
If it is true, it's completely irrational. Cathodic ray screens (ie. the heavy screens from the 90's and before, made of a glass tube) indeed had significant electromagnetic radiation, but it is still very far from doing any harm... and flat computer screens make images based on a completely different approach (LED lights), much much much less electromagnetic radiation compared to cathodic ray screen. And no, the apron won't stop the radiation from Wifi, your back is not magical screen. Consider a wearable Faraday cage for this ^^
And also : constantly hung on mobile phones (significant electro-magnetic field there too), radiation are somehow fine. Computer screens, it's not fine, even if a flat panel does not emit anything significant ?!
Scandinavian:
It's partly bunk. Take you best mate, or just his phone, go down to a baby equipment shop and ask for one of these aprons. Wrap your friends phone in it and call. Now, would it ring if it shielded electromagnetic radiation, I think not. I have actually seen one of these aprons that work, but in our local baby shops, none of them work. The sales staff thinks the foreigners are funny for playing with their phones this way.
I am not saying it doesn't protect against anything, just that it doesn't protect against radio waves commonly used by mobile phones. I have tried this with a phone that could be forced into difference frequency bands, same same.
And why only protect the front ? I know the pregnant belly is mostly at the front, but hey, if these "rays" are so dangerous, why not protect a little more.
If tinfoil only wasn't so expensive in China
ScotsAlan:
My wife had one DrM.
At first I thought it contained a Farady cage style mesh inside. So I wrapped my mobile phone in it and my wife dialed my number. Signal got through ok.
Maybe the mesh was not fine enough to stop microwaves, but it was interesting anyway.
My wife got her apron from a friend who had had her baby. I think that same apron has covered another 3 pregnancies since she had it.
DrMonkey:
@ScotsAlan Faraday cages should surround the object to shield, and even in that case, the cage *filters* the radiation, it's not a perfect wall. The filtering is more effective for some frequencies bands than others. An apron fails at being a cage, and lead is effective for X-ray and gamma rays. Typical radiation from household items, wifi or phones won't be filtered effectively. And it's not a big deal, the energy radiated by such devices is low. Finally, if there is an effect from such low energies, it's yet to be confirmed. Things like food or air pollution are far more likely to do significant harm. Those aprons as protection, it's as ridiculous as tin foil hats.
It's all BS, it's the perfect scam. Because if anyone remembers what we learned in High school is that radiation travels in all directions. So these so called aprons are just that a scam. I feel so bad that they get scammed only due to the lack of knowledge.
Scandinavian:
It's partly a scam. You can certainly weave clothing to have the correct mesh gaps to protect against radiation, e.g. look at the door of a microwave. The see through material in the door keeps in radiation, clothing can do the same. For a microwave the mesh is targeted the specific frequency of the electromagnetic waves used to heat food (water actually)
ironman510:
Then they'll need a radiation suit. The apron is over hyped and not need.
Chinese people believe the apron will shield their babies from radiation from computers, ovens, TVs or cell phones.
It is because the world has people who can all be categorized in to different levels of gullibleness.
To name a few from least to most
1. Educated people
2. Less educated people
3. Un educated people
4. Retards
5. Pregnant women (this is not a stab at pregnant women, but merely a tip with the hat acknowleding that the mother instinct means a woman will go far to protect her offspring)
6. Pregnant Superstitious Chinese Women
I f'ing hate superstition.
Anti-Radiation Aprons.
And you almost never see pregnant women using computers because the "radiation hurts the baby." I had to try my hardest to convince my wife that it's okay to use a computer while pregnant, but probably not okay to stand in front of a nuclear reactor.
It's also okay to stand next to a microwave since it gives off non-ionizing (non-cancer-causing) radiation.
Scandinavian:
actually a microwave oven can leak if it is in disrepair (e.g. like the ones you find in Chinese offices/hospitals/canteen rooms)
mike695ca:
One would think Hulk of all people here would understand the power of radiation. Didnt she know that her baby was going to be a mutant regardless of what she does?
Hulk:
But isn't that just non-ionizing radiation?
Hulk / mike695ca / Obama / George Bush / George Xu,
LOL NEWBIE IM NOT IRRADIATED IM JUST GREEN HAHA
Hotwater:
Are you green with envy because George Xu doesn't pay you whereas he supposedly paid Craig?