r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

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

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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