I know of a very Frum elderly woman who was visiting her grandchildren in Beitar in Eretz Yisrael. She had serious eye problems (glaucoma and others) and it was a bright summer day. She wore her prescription sunglasses when walking outside and was yelled at by some local teenagers and called a Prutzah. Then someone came up to her and took her sunglasses away, saying it’s not proper for a Bas Yisrael to wear them. The sunlight did serious damage to her eyes and her great-grandson (who told me the story) said it was a Nes that she didn’t need emergency surgery to fix what happened. She couldn’t go outside for over a week, though.
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