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Hangglide@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• frazw@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ve also not been fine.

  SUID Death rate for infants has decreased even since 1990. Baby monitor likely had a role in that.

  FYI not supporting subscription for features a device has in hardware, just saying I’d rather have a monitor that never went off than no monitor and a dead child. There are plenty of alternative devices without subs that cost a lot less to begin with.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know what else happened in the 90s? Leaded gas was banned. I’ll attribute it to that. Anecdotes don’t mean much.

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    • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You need to publish a scientific paper on your SIDs discovery. Don’t let this major work languish in some technology comment on Lemmy!

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    • frazw@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not saying baby monitors are the only reason for improved SUID rates. I’m saying they likely played a role. Despite your sarcasm, you might also be right that lead could have adversely affected unexplained infant mortality. The point I was trying to make was that baby monitors are not useless devices designed to extract money from you as implied by OP, whose comments by the way, were anecdotal.

      $400 is excessive though. As is a subscription.

      And data on SIDS is freely available. www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm

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• RufusFirefly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can just hear some people going, “WHAT? Are you crazy?”. I was a little tike in the early 60s and the only monitor my mom had was me screaming or the “THUNK” of me falling and hitting the floor.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used a normal webcam to monitor my baby and, honestly, I was so paranoid that I don’t regret it. Seeing her breathe or move before I went to bed and when I woke up was a comfort and relief.

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And only a few children were kidnapped by the Fae.

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about the ones that were left in the cold for being sickly?

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They turn into Swedes.

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