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heytheredelilahTOR311 karma

The sun is brutal on healthy skin at the best of times. Scars can be more negatively effected than healthy skin. It can cause discolouration (darkening of the scar) or it can cause them to develop keloids (a thickening of the tissue). The best thing you can do is to wear sunscreen and keep them covered. If you do get a burn, it will be important to use aloe and vitamin e containing products to mitigate damage. That all being said, if you just take proper precautions, you shouldn't have any issues. I've not taken very good care of my scars and do have some darkening but I'm fair so it's not too bad. The discolouration is always worse on darker skinned people.

heytheredelilahTOR257 karma

That's the thing about PTSD, it can just show up, out the blue months or even years later. I know from experience. If you get treatment now, you'll be better prepared.

heytheredelilahTOR170 karma

The Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries are all but dead. The seals aren't to blame for this (obviously, because it's from over-fishing). But as we're trying to rebuild the fish stocks, we need to mitigate their losses by culling the seal population. When it's too many wolves, we call it a cull. When it's too many deer, we call it a cull. But when it's too many seals? Suddenly it's an out and out slaughter.

heytheredelilahTOR104 karma

They've been banned since the '80's.

heytheredelilahTOR88 karma

What's the difference between killing it at 12 days old or waiting ten weeks?