Bill Harvey: Don’t you wonder some times?

It took a few years, but I finally got it.

The topic of myopia has been bubbling away beneath the surface throughout my time since qualification. Indeed, Professor Bernard Gilmartin’s group were laying the grounds for a lot of what we know today even while I was a student at Aston back in the 1980s.

Though the frightening prevalence figures forced even the most sceptical hyperope to accept that the world was steadily becoming myopic, the problem of myopia still seemed a Wuhan-like distant concern, unlikely to affect the UK other than to maintain a healthy market for vision correction. Furthermore, excitement around attempts to limit myopia, where progression over a year was reduced by a fraction of a dioptre, seemed somewhat overblown.