Posted on 04/08/2024 12:22:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Brooklyn woman who squinted at the 2017 solar eclipse for 10 seconds without proper eye protection is now warning others of the “irreversible eye damage” she suffered — including a blind spot in the middle of her left iris.
Bridget Kyeremateng, 29, told The Post on Monday — hours before a solar eclipse was expected to be partially visible in the Big Apple — that she looked up at the spectacle without any eye protection after being unable to secure a pair of protective glasses, thinking “a couple of seconds wouldn’t do anything.
“I couldn’t focus on the sun or the exact curvature of the moon. I thought I would close one of my eyes to get a better focus. I could barely see anything, but I stared at the sun for a good 10 to 15 seconds before my eyes were starting to not feel good, so I walked inside,” recalled Kyeremateng, who works in marketing in the Big Apple.
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(Darwin is still calling the shots).
Looking at it without the glasses during totality is the proper time to do so.
Yep. You’ll see it a lot better that way.
What did she do, look at the sun outside the eye clinic and walk right in for her scheduled appointment?
We were almost dead in the center of totality. When the eclipse was at about 75%, I glanced up for a millisecond and had a blue shadow in my eyes for ten minutes or so.
Anyone as ignorant as this deserves a seeing eye dog.
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