Originally published at: Trump supporters on Tucson rally stage sought medical attention for mysterious eye injuries - Boing Boing
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A toxic smog composed of fine particles of orange bronzer and whatever kind of hairspray it is that Trump uses to keep his ten thousand dollar combover in place?
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Combined with Trump’s other chemical emissions.
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Mysterious eye injuries? Where’s @beschizza’s manipulated eye images when you need them?
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I believe them, but I gotta say, between this and the recent supposed assassination attempt, and in context of ALL the perceived victimhood from this entire group, I’m getting real, “Boy who cried Wolf” vibes, and the attendant apathy.
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So Trump supporters are blind. This is news?!
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hmm… “eyes were burning” after sitting under stage lights reminds this unworthy one of:
Bored Ape creator says UV lights at ApeFest burned attendees’ eyes and skin
ApeFest attendees quickly reported burning, painful eyes after Saturday event.
Beth Mole - 11/9/2023, 2:15 PM
Lamps emitting ultraviolet light in the corner of a Bored Ape NFT event in Hong Kong last Saturday are the likely cause of severe eye and skin injuries among attendees, according to Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and host of the event.
…Soon after an ApeFest party Saturday night, some attendees reported severe pain and burning sensations in their eyes, as well as vision problems and skin irritation, according to Yuga Labs. Doctors and others on the Internet quickly speculated that the cause was UV exposure and photokeratitis (aka snow blindness, arc eye, or welder’s flash), which is akin to a sunburn on the cornea (the clear tissue covering the front of your eye) due to exposure to UV light. The New York Times reported as of Tuesday that the number of attendees injured was over 20 …
plus there was a boring (orange) ape at both events
(apologies for not reading through to the final paragraph in honored poster’s main post, wherein they also recognize this connection. owe them a coke!)
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I bet all my TrumpCoin that it was faulty HMI (Hydrargyrum Medium-Arc Iodide) lighting. According to the web - “Each HMI fixture has a UV safety glass cover that should be used to protect people who may be in front of the light . Exposure to an unprotected lamp can cause retinal damage and severe skin burns.”
I worked on a show that had the hosts sitting in a tent with the playing field behind them, and the producer wanted them lit as good as the background, so we placed a smaller 500w HMI in front of them, maybe 5 feet from their faces. Sure enough one day some idiot (not me!) took out the UV glass, defeated the safety switch … and by the end of the day our talent were in excruciating pain.
Eyes were damaged, hosts were off for months recovering, we got hit with a massive workplace safety fine… two people got fired, it was all in all a very bad time.
So this is what I suspect.
Mr.Doofus got the UV retina-scrub as well if that is any consolation.
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I mean that sounds like a very good theory. If it was localized to one side of a stage, other than some sort of gas flowing up from under them, I can only think of lighting that would hurt your eyes. And if it was a gas, it would need to be colorless and odorless or people would be reporting they smelled/saw something.
I hope no one is permanently hurt.
The lighting was probably part of the venue, right? They would be on the hook for damages?
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The Bored Ape issue was UV, not laser light.
I think that @Alvin_Goodman 's theory is the correct one, but the discussion has me thinking- has anyone ever used a laser with UV wavelengths to attack someone’s eyes? Seems like if you used that type of laser rather than something in visible wavelengths it would be very difficult for people to determine the source, and it might take some time before they even experience any pain or symptoms. And those lasers are a lot smaller and cheaper than they used to be.
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Exposure to brimstone.
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You’re stressing me out. And I had the thought, too: invisible wavelength laser light attacks.
I mean, not for the people on this stage. That was definitely faulty lighting as others have pointed out, but I am just stressed by the idea of harmful laser light you can’t see.
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Maybe it was the part where Trump told his followers to stare at the eclipse with him?
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I was wondering if it was a non visible laser. Even if the folks supporting Trump are objectively awful this sort of thing is not cool at all.
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Was he cropdusting them?
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That’s the down-wind side of the stage, right?
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Sounds reasonable and doesn’t require anything out of the ordinary. I wonder… Trump is a known authoritative idiot about stage lighting and coloration. Is he telling them to take the UV glass off?
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I thought the tradition was that evil comes from stage left?
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