Ear Plugs Necessary for Health On and Off the Job
Ear plugs can not only protect your ears, but also your peace of mind as well! To be sure, a great number of folks actually enjoy a riot. But how about those who react badly to living like sardines in a can?
Get some ear plugs, that’s what! They’re cheap for getting something so precious back in return: your ability to hear yourself think. It ain’t just roommates, either, but neighbors – and not just apartment-dwellers but folks who live in houses: such is life in the big city!
So that’s where ear plugs come in. They should be helpful to some degree, if not a perfect final solution. That’s because the ones you’re likely to find are only good for blocking up to 33 dcB of noise, which is about the level of a typical conversation. Those of better quality are not as easy to find and will require a bit of research to procure.
But it may be impractical to wear them continuously. While many people get used to them, others find the practice increasingly irritable, especially when reusing ear plugs. Naturally, no noise at all is preferrable. Unfortunately, most legal jurisdictions do not find the matter an important one to adjudicate. Believe it or not, even the city with the toughest noise pollution laws in the country, New York, treats the matter seriously enough. And ironically, the one greatest source of noise complaints, that between neighbors, is precisely what civic involvement tends to shy away from!
Jean-Paul Sartre famously remarked that “hell is other people;” this may explain whyThe Big Apple is so reluctant to intervene between warring neighbors, which is but hell multiplied exponentially! So what, then, does their vaunted noise pollution laws actually do? And what else does a call to 311 offer besides a chance to gripe to someone?
It seems like most people don’t mind noise. That’s the sad truth, in the final analysis: most folks just don’t mind it. Hence, some things will never change. Folks likely aren’t all that aware how important mental sanity is – nor, even, the inverse relationship between it and noise pollution!