Can we get an emergency closure tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Houses are very leaky by design. As warm air rises and leaves the house, outside air is drawn in through cracks, door frames, window frames, etc. Unless you house has good filtration and air exchange, the air quality is mostly the same as the outside.

You wouldn’t want your house to be completely sealed. That would actually be more dangerous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Houses are very leaky by design. As warm air rises and leaves the house, outside air is drawn in through cracks, door frames, window frames, etc. Unless you house has good filtration and air exchange, the air quality is mostly the same as the outside.

No, your house is somewhat leaky by design. If your house is very leaky, you need better insulation, if only to reduce your energy bills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

[Anonymous]

I am assuming everyone pressing for a closure has an elementary, or a middle school kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am assuming everyone pressing for a closure has an elementary, or a middle school kid?

Yes - I have both an elementary schooler and a high schooler. He already has proven he won't be able to earn a D1 athletics scholarship so I don't much care about his lungs anymore. He can do whatever he wants. But we should definitely close schools for the littles who still have a chance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am assuming everyone pressing for a closure has an elementary, or a middle school kid?

Yes - I have both an elementary schooler and a high schooler. He already has proven he won't be able to earn a D1 athletics scholarship so I don't much care about his lungs anymore. He can do whatever he wants. But we should definitely close schools for the littles who still have a chance

“Littles”- shudder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am assuming everyone pressing for a closure has an elementary, or a middle school kid?

Yes - I have both an elementary schooler and a high schooler. He already has proven he won't be able to earn a D1 athletics scholarship so I don't much care about his lungs anymore. He can do whatever he wants. But we should definitely close schools for the littles who still have a chance

It’s like 2 days of smoky air, get a grip

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

What do you think is going to happen in 2 days? They’re not going to get cancer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

What do you think is going to happen in 2 days? They’re not going to get cancer

Would you be ok with 2 days of breathing asbestos or lead dust, or 2 days of high levels of radiation, or 2 days of drinking water with high levels of arsenic or benzene? Well, maybe you would, but most people who are aware of chronic health hazards would not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

What do you think is going to happen in 2 days? They’re not going to get cancer

Would you be ok with 2 days of breathing asbestos or lead dust, or 2 days of high levels of radiation, or 2 days of drinking water with high levels of arsenic or benzene? Well, maybe you would, but most people who are aware of chronic health hazards would not.

Total false equivalency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

What do you think is going to happen in 2 days? They’re not going to get cancer

Would you be ok with 2 days of breathing asbestos or lead dust, or 2 days of high levels of radiation, or 2 days of drinking water with high levels of arsenic or benzene? Well, maybe you would, but most people who are aware of chronic health hazards would not.

Total false equivalency.

Dude. No. PM2.5 is bad stuff, just like asbestos, lead, radiation, arsenic, and benzene.

I'm expecting all the Fox News watchers to take up cigarette smoking next, just to pwn the libs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

What do you think is going to happen in 2 days? They’re not going to get cancer

Would you be ok with 2 days of breathing asbestos or lead dust, or 2 days of high levels of radiation, or 2 days of drinking water with high levels of arsenic or benzene? Well, maybe you would, but most people who are aware of chronic health hazards would not.

You're right! In California and other western states, they routinely close schools and shut down commercial activity when there is smove from wildfires present.

Wait . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
—OP

Just be aware that the air inside your house is the same air that is outside and the same air that is at school.

Maybe you should consider moving to Florida to avoid the bad air quality.

This isn’t true at all. Maybe you should consider reading a book once in a while

What isn’t true? Is your house completely sealed off? It would be weird if it was. You realize that the air from outside is still getting inside your house?

Keep your kid home all week if you want. Makes no difference to me. But realize that your kid is breathing in the same air that the rest of the kids are breathing in, at home or at school.

Exactly - this is why you see all of these pictures from inside people's homes and apartments in NYC where they can't see 5 feet in front just like it is outside on the street. Pollution levels of air outside are always exactly the same as those inside. It's science.

When I open the door and go outside, I smell smoke. I don’t smell it when I go back inside. I realize that outside air gets in, but there is no way that the indoor air has the same pollution levels. Otherwise why bother telling people to stay indoors?

What do you want them to tell you? Don’t breathe?

It’s the same air. I smell the smoke inside also.

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.

What do you think is going to happen in 2 days? They’re not going to get cancer

Would you be ok with 2 days of breathing asbestos or lead dust, or 2 days of high levels of radiation, or 2 days of drinking water with high levels of arsenic or benzene? Well, maybe you would, but most people who are aware of chronic health hazards would not.

You're right! In California and other western states, they routinely close schools and shut down commercial activity when there is smove from wildfires present.

Wait . . .

When the air quality is this bad? Yes, they do.