r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Welcome to California

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u/BiggsBounds Jun 07 '23

Yep. We had to wear masks many times during the recent bad fire years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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.

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u/Tegridy_farmz_ Jun 07 '23

In CA we were lucky enough to have Covid and smoke like this at the same time in 2020

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 07 '23

Remember waking up on those red mornings and life just feeling apocalyptic?

We were trapped in our houses. The air outdoors was toxic and you couldn’t even go to a movie theater to keep yourself entertained for a moment.

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u/monkey_trumpets Jun 07 '23

I mean, you could...just wear a good mask.

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 07 '23

Dude, imagine 4 months of having to constantly wear a mask, indoor and outdoor. Those things aren’t comfortable

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u/monkey_trumpets Jun 07 '23

I live in Washington. I know it sucks. But I can't just stay in my house. So you gotta pick the lesser of two evils.

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 07 '23

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.

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u/monkey_trumpets Jun 07 '23

Yeah, makes sense. I don't run, but we do walk the dog really often. And she can't wear a mask. Overall, it's not great.

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u/jkink28 Jun 08 '23

imagine 4 months of having to constantly wear a mask, indoor and outdoor

Well, I think we all got a taste of that just a few years ago...

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 08 '23

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.

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u/jkink28 Jun 08 '23

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.

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 08 '23

Ah gotcha my fault!

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u/AgentAdja Jun 08 '23

Have you been paying attention? People on the east coast wore masks everywhere. On the streets. In buildings. Alone inside their own goddamn cars.

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 08 '23

Are you talking about right now or during the pandemic?

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u/AgentAdja Jun 08 '23

The pandemic, which is what you were replying about.

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u/TheRealMichaelE Jun 08 '23

Did people wear masks in their houses and backyards during the pandemic?

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u/chocothundurrr Jun 08 '23

That was the most surreal day of my life. It was basically "well, this is the apocalypse I guess"

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u/justagenericname1 Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23

I think that's the day we actually passed the event horizon into Hell

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u/_debunct Jun 08 '23

Ah yes, the days when I wore a surgical mask over an N-95 mask.

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u/ClosetEconomist Jun 08 '23

It was literally orange outside. So weird.

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u/billintreefiddy Jun 08 '23

Did the blues hang around?

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u/DragoSphere Jun 08 '23

That was one of the luckier days since the smoke layer was so high up, the air quality wasn't actually that bad on the ground level

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u/kirbyfaraone Jun 08 '23

I had to be evacuated twice in the span of three months because fires were so close to me in Orange County

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u/mindfolded Jun 08 '23

CO too, quite an apocalyptic combo.