On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:59:49 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 12:52:39 PM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:17:14 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>
>> >On 8/20/2017 4:42 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I bought glasses early on from Amazon only to find out that they are not
>> >> certified. Too many bogus ones being sold around here so, no viewing for
>> >> us. It's supposed to come early here anyway. Fred Meyers will be closed
>> >> for 3 hours so the employees can view.
>> >>
>> >> So basically, no. No plans.
>> >
>> >I wonder about them. Just because they are not certified does not mean
>> >they are no good. I used a welder's glass the last time we had a
>> >partial. For some certifying agencies, this is a money grab for them.
>>
>> It isn't really an agency. NASA has issued a list of approved labs
>> that produce glasses to standard. All you have to do is show that you
>> purchased your glasses that you sell from one of the labs. I noticed
>> that a lot of the glasses were produced in China but still had all the
>> required coding. I wouldn't trust those.
>> Janet US
>
>Things were a lot simpler back in the old days. People just used film leader or glass darkened with candle soot to view the sun. As far as I know there was no mass epidemic of blindness caused by viewing a solar eclipse. These days, it seen as a serious public health issue.

What I have heard is a scale with partial loss of vision on one end to
complete blindness at the other.
Janet US