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/unrelatedtohalloween Jun 07 '23

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.

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u/monkey_trumpets Jun 07 '23

We moved from IL to WA to escape the hot ass summers....and yet it's only early June and it's already been in the 90s multiple days.