Ecuador, kick him out.

What are you gaining from this?

How is looking at an eclipse any more dangerous than looking at the sun normally?

I've looked at the sun a million times in my lifetime, and I'm still okay. I also don't wear sunglasses ever... So, I may regret this someday.

Is it more dangerous because the sun is darkened and it's tempting to stare at it longer?

Is the snark necessary?

It's been a stressful couple weeks!

I was overly sensitive... I appreciate the apology.

I do appreciate the info you gave me.

I and every one around me stared *directly* at the moon and the sun's corona for 2 full minutes yesterday during the period of totality and suffered no ill effects. As soon as the diamond ring appeared we all immediately looked away (“you look away when you see it ending”). We put our eclipse glasses back on if we wanted to look at it again.

Even at very high percentage of totality, even 99%, it is too bright to look at directly, and it instinctively feels too bright to do so (unless you're Trump though, apparently).

It was silly of him to label it a "hysteria" though, and the "company profits" boogeyman. I was very grateful to have the glasses and kudos to the companies who sold them.

I file this one under "meh".

because you can safely look up during totality. You have to be damned sure you look away before any bit of the sun is exposed because damage can happen in a fraction of a second.

Dumb Donnie thought if he just looked at the moon during a partial eclipse without looking at the sun, he'd be perfectly safe. And he looked up at it 7 times. If Satan hasn't given him an inner eyelid, he's going to have some trouble.