@aeva yes, especially since exposure to PM2.5 has long-term health effects.
No joke, this really needs to be a non-negotiable part of employment contracts for jobs where it's possible, and for jobs where it's not, people need to be supplied with respirators with P100 filters.
Supposedly the air quality index is merely "orange" today instead of "purple", but I'm still feeling some instinctual desperation to claw my way outside to where the good air is supposed to be even though I know it'll only be worse outside. I wonder if I can just "prime now" an oxygen tank...
@ddr I'm told it started out as a heat map where the worst possible air quality was "red" and then later on humanity found a way, and so they later added more colors like purple for even worse weather
@aeva you ever imagine the stress of trying to keep track of all the things communication channels tell you are trying to kill you, kills you more than the thing you're avoiding?
@rhysrhaven Rhys it's the fucking weather app, the thing that tells your local atmospheric conditions and reasonable estimations that are useful for near term planning. I've been checking the weather app because the air has been like breathing a campfire all week and I've been miserable from how sick I feel because of it. I'm checking the weather app because seeing a forecast that says this will end in a few days is helping me calm down.
@aeva all I'm saying is I was out working on stuff last few days in the haze, not much but just in the evenings and I feel fine. and reading mastodon around the smoke it feels like reading Twitter bout covid, where i mostly went about working on stuff same as before.
reading Illich about healthcare, the medicine being worse than the disease is on my mind a lot.
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