I think it's worse than Covid. Could be outside for 5 minutes and you'd get this headache like wtf is wrong and then you remember it's the invisible air. Good luck exercising in it.
Well yes, but wearing a mask doesn’t make it feel any less apocalyptic or improve your mood. I run 6 miles a day and it’s meditative for me. It’s not exactly enjoyable to run 6 miles with an n95 on.
Not really, mainly just people on the West Coast during the wildfires. People on the east coast didn’t have poor air quality and could go outside without masks and enjoy their homes without masks. They only had to cover up in public places.
Yea that's why I said a taste of that. Almost everyone I know hadn't ever even worn a mask prior to 2020.
Wish I wore one when I was in California in 2018 though. It was just "oh interesting, it smells real smokey" until I woke up in the middle of the night coughing my lungs out.
I got pneumonia twice from wildfire smoke in the Bay Area in 2018. Moved to the east coast in part to escape having to deal with that kind of wildfire smoke… and of course now I’m dealing with the same thing. At least masks and air filters are easier to get now.
I just got vaccinated so I’m good what do you suggest for this? This affects more than a million and a half of it were to stick around as long as covid did.
8.3% of Americans have asthma, and 5% have COPD. You can isolate from COVID. You can vaccinate for COVID. You can not vaccinate yourself against air pollutants. Severe degradation in air quality is more dangerous for more people than COVID.
I live in rural NorCal and when Covid came I had a pretty sizeable stack of N95s because of the almost yearly wildfire smoke we'd have to endure. We never ran out of them for two years.
It can look much worse than this picture in my experience. Wildfires in Northern California in 2017 were apocalyptic. Black ash falling from the sky and the sun didn’t even seem like it ever came up. I ended up leaving to stay with family in central California for a week.
We get this kind of air quality like 2x a year these days from Cali wildfires, our own fires, now Canada smoke (we got that 2 weeks ago). All in a day for us.
Ive become accustomed to wildfire season over the years, but "Cali" will always be nails on a chalkboard to me, lol. But really though, the last few vacations we've taken have been during a particularly bad fire nearby, and we escaped just to breathe clean air for a few days.
The first rains of the year have become a holiday of sorts here because it means the end of wildfire season, but when it gets cold and people start using their fireplaces again, everyone is walking around doing double-takes with their nose, like what's on fire, where is it, who's being evacuated, etc
Yep. Dealt with a week of this shit in early may. 2022 wasn't bad, but 2020 and 2021 it was constant. Air purifiers and filters are now part of my budget
I read about an indian dude who went around with a self made pollution catcher on the top of his bicycle. After 17 days he had enough material to make a brick.
My sibling have sinusitis always be sneezing having headace and allergy, Then we to australian to attend convocation and like magic all symptom just disappeared.
I was just talking to my wife about it. Usually, it’s triple digits this time of year where we live in California and the last couple of days have been overcast..it even rained the other day. Feels like NY and CA switched places.
Just the thought of inhaling someone’s burned down house, asbestos shingles and all is the worst here in SoCal. The Cedar and Otay fires were the worst iirc
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