Red air quality, are you limiting activity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be honest here. You can go outside and it’s fine. It’s not the best for your health but it’s probably not going to make a huge impact on you. The real issue here is do you really want to add additional strain to your lungs just to go outside on the worst air quality days? These types of health affects are cumulative over your life and can result in a poorer quality of life as you get older. You’ll never know if going out contributed to your health. I don’t know why someone would add additional damage to their lungs unnecessarily. They have to last you your whole life.

You’re making this up.

[Anonymous]

I do think this week is a harbinger of things to come - will be more frequent in years to follow - within the next 5 even.

I didn't think too much of it Wednesday but yesterday I thought it was pretty bad. I wasn't someone who really went nuts with masking during most of COVID but I did think yesterday, most of NOVA was not fun when out. If those didn't mind wanted to be out, I get it but quite honestly, it was not nice.

Today is much better. My kid went swimming with a friend so I think yesterday was the worst of it for us.

I fear that between the temperatures over summer being scorching/high humidity and the wildfires that could impact our air quality, even DMV area will be a hard place to live. That's saying a lot since we are pretty boring - no hurricane/tornados/earthquakes/etc of major proportions that happen around here. It's much harder on other parts of the country it seems. I am sad for my kids. Within the next 10-15 years, I really feel that our life outdoors will no longer be the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think this week is a harbinger of things to come - will be more frequent in years to follow - within the next 5 even.

I didn't think too much of it Wednesday but yesterday I thought it was pretty bad. I wasn't someone who really went nuts with masking during most of COVID but I did think yesterday, most of NOVA was not fun when out. If those didn't mind wanted to be out, I get it but quite honestly, it was not nice.

Today is much better. My kid went swimming with a friend so I think yesterday was the worst of it for us.

I fear that between the temperatures over summer being scorching/high humidity and the wildfires that could impact our air quality, even DMV area will be a hard place to live. That's saying a lot since we are pretty boring - no hurricane/tornados/earthquakes/etc of major proportions that happen around here. It's much harder on other parts of the country it seems. I am sad for my kids. Within the next 10-15 years, I really feel that our life outdoors will no longer be the same.

This is why you regulate capitalism and the environment. If our environmental goals continue to be left to shareholders, we’re doomed. Oh wait, that’s happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be honest here. You can go outside and it’s fine. It’s not the best for your health but it’s probably not going to make a huge impact on you. The real issue here is do you really want to add additional strain to your lungs just to go outside on the worst air quality days? These types of health affects are cumulative over your life and can result in a poorer quality of life as you get older. You’ll never know if going out contributed to your health. I don’t know why someone would add additional damage to their lungs unnecessarily. They have to last you your whole life.

You’re making this up.

NP.

You have to be joking me. Surely you know this is true?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw people running around the memorials today and across the Memorial bridge but I know their kings must be burning. I hated walking a few blocks to my appointment.

Are you out of shape?

I ran 4 miles this morning. My lungs/breathing felt completely normal, although yes things smelled smokey.

Have felt fine all day at work.

That’s just so irresponsible. To your body, your health, [/b]the community. [b] Sigh.

Say what? I know you’re trying to make this another way to judge others but this has ABSOLUTELY no impact on anyone but the runner.

But what if the PP needs to use medical services for some anxiety-induced condition and the ER is overrun with joggers having trouble breathing?

I think the majority of us understand that the part about "the community" is absurd but can we not joke about ERs being overrun? It wasn't that long ago that people were dying because of that.

If you are a covid denier, then please ignore my comment.

[Anonymous]

I am genuinely very curious about the educational backgrounds of those who believe that a) you can always feel it when your lungs are being damaged and/or b) damage isn't cumulative.

Seriously if you believe either of those things I'd love to know what kind of education you had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think this week is a harbinger of things to come - will be more frequent in years to follow - within the next 5 even.

I didn't think too much of it Wednesday but yesterday I thought it was pretty bad. I wasn't someone who really went nuts with masking during most of COVID but I did think yesterday, most of NOVA was not fun when out. If those didn't mind wanted to be out, I get it but quite honestly, it was not nice.

Today is much better. My kid went swimming with a friend so I think yesterday was the worst of it for us.

I fear that between the temperatures over summer being scorching/high humidity and the wildfires that could impact our air quality, even DMV area will be a hard place to live. That's saying a lot since we are pretty boring - no hurricane/tornados/earthquakes/etc of major proportions that happen around here. It's much harder on other parts of the country it seems. I am sad for my kids. Within the next 10-15 years, I really feel that our life outdoors will no longer be the same.

This is why you regulate capitalism and the environment. If our environmental goals continue to be left to shareholders, we’re doomed. Oh wait, that’s happening.

Capitalism would have cut down those useless trees in Canada. It feels more like government mismanagement of natural resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw people running around the memorials today and across the Memorial bridge but I know their kings must be burning. I hated walking a few blocks to my appointment.

Are you out of shape?

I ran 4 miles this morning. My lungs/breathing felt completely normal, although yes things smelled smokey.

Have felt fine all day at work.

That’s just so irresponsible. To your body, your health, [/b]the community. [b] Sigh.

Say what? I know you’re trying to make this another way to judge others but this has ABSOLUTELY no impact on anyone but the runner.

But what if the PP needs to use medical services for some anxiety-induced condition and the ER is overrun with joggers having trouble breathing?

I think the majority of us understand that the part about "the community" is absurd but can we not joke about ERs being overrun? It wasn't that long ago that people were dying because of that.

If you are a covid denier, then please ignore my comment.

Citation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a guy walking outside with a young baby in a bjorn yesterday. It was a leisure walk in a suburban neighborhood. I was stunned.

And I noticed several homes with all their windows open.

I would’ve taken a pic and called police/CPS. That is someone who can’t be trusted with a baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My goodness. Why is it so hard for people to just STAY HOME!

Because they have jobs?

Why can’t they WFH?

Unless they have some menial job pushing a broom somewhere I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw a guy walking outside with a young baby in a bjorn yesterday. It was a leisure walk in a suburban neighborhood. I was stunned.

And I noticed several homes with all their windows open.

I would’ve taken a pic and called police/CPS. That is someone who can’t be trusted with a baby.

No, I figure they are deselecting themselves and their kids from the gene pool eventually, just like my ancestors who smoked non stop.

In my case, thanks for the epigenetic damage chain smoking grandads! /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My goodness. Why is it so hard for people to just STAY HOME!

Because they have jobs?

Why can’t they WFH?

Unless they have some menial job pushing a broom somewhere I guess.

You know why your WFH job lets you WFH? Because it's non-essential. Because *you're* non essential.

Signed,
Doctors, teachers, construction workers, repair people, food workers, essential people everywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My goodness. Why is it so hard for people to just STAY HOME!

Because they have jobs?

Why can’t they WFH?

Unless they have some menial job pushing a broom somewhere I guess.

Or operating on your brain . . .

[Anonymous]

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181142062/smo...uality-food-delivery

“ I don't think tipping more justifies it. As delivery workers, we're doing essential work, and I think the just and dignified thanks for our labor is to pay us the minimum wage.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/...r-sustainable-living

“ “Citizens of 2050 are being taught an economic mindset that is rooted in the textbooks of 1950, which in turn are rooted in the theories of 1850,” Raworth writes. By exposing the flaws in these old theories, such as the idea that economic growth will massively reduce inequality, or that humans are merely self-interested individuals, Raworth wants to show how our thinking has been constrained by economic concepts that are fundamentally unsuited to the great challenges of this century.


To Raworth, the ideal economy of the future can be captured in a single image: a ring doughnut. Its outer crust represents an ecological limit, while its inner ring represents a social foundation. To step beyond the ecological limit will damage the environment beyond repair. To fall below the social foundation will mean some people go without the things they need to live well, such as food, housing or income.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My goodness. Why is it so hard for people to just STAY HOME!

Because they have jobs?

Why can’t they WFH?

Unless they have some menial job pushing a broom somewhere I guess.

Not everyone cuts and pastes between Excel spreadsheets for a living.