It’s bad. My family is from NYC and my mom has asthma and she’s been having a hard time breathing. My sister bought her a few airpurifiers which have helped but she’s basically confining herself indoors.
My sister bought her a few airpurifiers which have helped but she’s basically confining herself indoors.
unironically when it’s this bad that’s what everyone should be doing unless they have a mask that filters PM2.5 particulate matter. that stuff is what kills you! it’s crazy anyone’s being forced outside in these conditions, given their rarity on the East Coast
I’m in Canada and a few weeks back I was leafleting neighborhoods in smoke like this, literally spent all day walking outside in it. I wore a big cartridge-filter mask and that made it fine, but I was baffled by how many people were baffled by the mask. They thought I was making some kind of statement about Covid. I had to gesture vaguely at the sullen orange sky and remind them that there was smoke in the air. I’m sure PPE like that mask would have been mandatory if I’d been working inside a building with air like that.
Unfortunately yeah doesn’t seem to think people know that this stuff is seriously dangerous for you. I am not sure what the news are saying but at least the government should issue a stay indoors order or something.
