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I was driving back from work lunch about 10 minutes before totality and passed literally dozens of people standing on sidewalks and in roadways just staring directly at the sun… gonna be a lot of blindness after this
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Not trying to down play the health risk for staring at an eclipse, but dipshit in chief stared at the last one and didn't go blind. What kind of harm to his vision do you think he experienced?
Does it depend on close you are to the totality? Are a bunch of people going to need glasses after this latest one?
iirc, the only safe time to look directly at the eclipse is during totality, where the moon has completely blocked the sun. But that's a pretty small window, Dustin from SmarterEveryDay put out a really informative video last month if anyone's interested. He interviews Dr. Telepun who wrote a book on it and made an app that audibly walks you through what's happening during the eclipse in real time, really neat stuff.