ER flooded after Americans put solar cream in their eyes to stare at the eclipse

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http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/25/people...lipse-6878913/

I was worried something like this would happen when I saw the path of the eclipse

The president didn't really show the exemple tbh

Don't put chemicals in your eyes people

[Zeta333]

this is the same level of stupid that people showed when the internet said you could charge your new iphone in the microwave and retards did it.

[Elba]

No child left behind.

[Kragragh]

shocking - the article doesn't back up the headline at all. so in other words, it didn't happen.

i put chemicals in my eyes all the time - they're called eyedrops.

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shocking - the article doesn't back up the headline at all. so in other words, it didn't happen.

i put chemicals in my eyes all the time - they're called eyedrops.

There are many articles about it

[schwarzkopf]

In the era where 40% of the population of a country denies all forms of reality, and spout #fakenews at every opportunity - it isn't surprising that many people were injured as they probably figured the news media and science were just 'fake'.

[hrugner]

There are many articles about it

They all refer back to one article though. So really there's only one article about it and a bunch of articles about the article.
http://www.wcyb.com/news/national/re...ipse/611460337

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In the era where 40% of the population of a country denies all forms of reality, and spout #fakenews at every opportunity - it isn't surprising that many people were injured as they probably figured the news media and science were just 'fake'.

Don't tell the these things so openly

Conservatives always looking for an excuse to infract you

[Mistame]

"Many" articles of the same anecdotal story of a few people doing it. Click-bait title, etc. The usual.

[Kragragh]

They all refer back to one article though. So really there's only one article about it and a bunch of articles about the article.
http://www.wcyb.com/news/national/re...ipse/611460337

and no proof it happened besides one person's hearsay so....

[Doctor Amadeus]

Wow pretty sad, wouldn't wish that kind of damage onto most, but really damn.

[Gevoth]

Pattereson's friend has the best stories.

[Kaleredar]

Seems a little late for this headline to be coming out, seeing as the eclipse happened four days before the article came out.

As in: probably made up.

[oxymoronic]

funny yet sad how many fell for this post.

[Spectral]

You got 300 million people, you're going to have some morons. In my experience, they're not in short supply.

[klogaroth]

I hope this was all spawned by the existence of this image: https://i.redd.it/p7ry3s6cv3hz.jpg

Whether it's the article responding to the idea that people might do this or whether people actually did it (which I find pretty doubtful).

[Independent voter]

Mostly fake news






http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/P...s-12011917.php

Doctors warned people not to look at the eclipse without eye protection. Sunscreen blocks the sun. So using sunscreen as eye protection makes sense, right?

A nurse in Redding stated that her hospital hasn't seen any patients with retinal damage from the eclipse, but they saw patients who put sunscreen on their eyeballs to watch the eclipse.

Nurse Practitioner Trish Patterson at Prestige Urgent Care told KRCR that one of her colleagues saw multiple people who sought medical attention after putting sunscreen in their eyes because they didn't have eclipse glasses.

"One of my colleagues at moonlight here stated yesterday that they had patients presenting at their clinic that put sunscreen on their eyeball, and presented that they were having pain and they were referred to an ophthalmologist," she said.

[TheDestinatus]

Hahahahahahahahahahahah!

[Dastreus]

Not surprising.

[Putin-Chan]

well this is the same beautiful country where 16.4 million adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.