Can Smell the Smoke

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no, the crazies are going to come back and tell everyone to cancel summer camps (unfortunately, schools out so the usual target isn't available).

The crazies are the ones who are trying to downplay what is happening to our environment.

Exactly. i guess it's willful ignorance.

No one is down playing it. But I can’t put out the Canadian wildfire with my garden hose in Herndon. It’s not like you are doing anything about it either, except panicking on DCUM.

Acknowledging it is not panicking. Discussing it is not panicking. Voting for people who take climate change seriously is not panicking either I suppose that's the part you're afraid of.

Nope. I vote straight D and always have. Drive a fuel efficient car and frankly don’t leave the house that often and when I do the drives are close. Conserve water and electricity too. Recycle. And beyond that I don’t sit around hand wringing and worrying about the end times I can’t control.

How nice for you. Some of us routinely spend a lot of time outside or have kids who do and need to know where the line is for outside activities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:meh - whatevs. I don't get worked up about stuff I can't control.

But this could literally kill you!

Not today. Probably not tomorrow.

So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.

You know people usually have to smoke for 40+ years before they get the cancer. A few days of smoky air isn't going to give your kids cancer.

Tomorrow is supposed to be Code Red. That means normal, healthy people should not spend time outside if they can help or exercise outside if they can help it. Why would they recommend that if it were fine?

For om Fairfax county

Take steps to limit your exposure. For example:

Spend more time indoors, where particle pollution levels are usually lower.
Consider moving outdoor and physical activities indoors or rescheduling them.
Choose easier outdoor activities (like walking instead of running) so you don’t breathe as hard and keep those outdoor activities short.

Nothing about staying indoors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no, the crazies are going to come back and tell everyone to cancel summer camps (unfortunately, schools out so the usual target isn't available).

The crazies are the ones who are trying to downplay what is happening to our environment.

Exactly. i guess it's willful ignorance.

No one is down playing it. But I can’t put out the Canadian wildfire with my garden hose in Herndon. It’s not like you are doing anything about it either, except panicking on DCUM.

Acknowledging it is not panicking. Discussing it is not panicking. Voting for people who take climate change seriously is not panicking either I suppose that's the part you're afraid of.

Nope. I vote straight D and always have. Drive a fuel efficient car and frankly don’t leave the house that often and when I do the drives are close. Conserve water and electricity too. Recycle. And beyond that I don’t sit around hand wringing and worrying about the end times I can’t control.

How nice for you. Some of us routinely spend a lot of time outside or have kids who do and need to know where the line is for outside activities.

How does your panicking or lecturing people online help any of those issues?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:meh - whatevs. I don't get worked up about stuff I can't control.

But this could literally kill you!

Not today. Probably not tomorrow.

So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.

You know people usually have to smoke for 40+ years before they get the cancer. A few days of smoky air isn't going to give your kids cancer.

Tomorrow is supposed to be Code Red. That means normal, healthy people should not spend time outside if they can help or exercise outside if they can help it. Why would they recommend that if it were fine?

For om Fairfax county

Take steps to limit your exposure. For example:

Spend more time indoors, where particle pollution levels are usually lower.
Consider moving outdoor and physical activities indoors or rescheduling them.
Choose easier outdoor activities (like walking instead of running) so you don’t breathe as hard and keep those outdoor activities short.

Nothing about staying indoors.

NP.

Save your energy. For some people, anxiety and worry is like an oddly comforting blanket - especially when they condemn others. They're the same people who were complaining about the huffers and puffers, advocating for masks outside, and complaining about groups exercising outdoors during covid.

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Discussion isn’t panic.

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Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

Canada has trees made of asbestos?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

I would call it discussion, but regardless, you’re engaging in the very lecturing you claim to deplore in others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:meh - whatevs. I don't get worked up about stuff I can't control.

But this could literally kill you!

Not today. Probably not tomorrow.

So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.

You know people usually have to smoke for 40+ years before they get the cancer. A few days of smoky air isn't going to give your kids cancer.

Tomorrow is supposed to be Code Red. That means normal, healthy people should not spend time outside if they can help or exercise outside if they can help it. Why would they recommend that if it were fine?

Right, so normal people will just calmly hang inside tomorrow. Not panic-post on DCUM about how it could “literally kill you!”

No one is panicking. Calm down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:meh - whatevs. I don't get worked up about stuff I can't control.

But this could literally kill you!

Not today. Probably not tomorrow.

So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.

You know people usually have to smoke for 40+ years before they get the cancer. A few days of smoky air isn't going to give your kids cancer.

Tomorrow is supposed to be Code Red. That means normal, healthy people should not spend time outside if they can help or exercise outside if they can help it. Why would they recommend that if it were fine?

Right, so normal people will just calmly hang inside tomorrow. Not panic-post on DCUM about how it could “literally kill you!”

No one is panicking. Calm down.

Actually serval posters (or one prolific poster) are definitely panicking. I am not concerned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

That's what you consider hysteria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:meh - whatevs. I don't get worked up about stuff I can't control.

But this could literally kill you!

Not today. Probably not tomorrow.

So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.

You know people usually have to smoke for 40+ years before they get the cancer. A few days of smoky air isn't going to give your kids cancer.

Tomorrow is supposed to be Code Red. That means normal, healthy people should not spend time outside if they can help or exercise outside if they can help it. Why would they recommend that if it were fine?

For om Fairfax county

Take steps to limit your exposure. For example:

Spend more time indoors, where particle pollution levels are usually lower.
Consider moving outdoor and physical activities indoors or rescheduling them.
Choose easier outdoor activities (like walking instead of running) so you don’t breathe as hard and keep those outdoor activities short.

Nothing about staying indoors.

NP.

Save your energy. For some people, anxiety and worry is like an oddly comforting blanket - especially when they condemn others. They're the same people who were complaining about the huffers and puffers, advocating for masks outside, and complaining about groups exercising outdoors during covid.

It's not panicking. Is avoiding too much bacon also panicking? Is it panicking not to want to breathe in second hand smoke? To not drink too much alcohol? Is that panicking? The answer is no. Being sensible is not the same as panicking.

You're annoying AF, PP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

That's what you consider hysteria?

When someone starts saying "Think of the children," we have passed fhe point of rational discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

That's what you consider hysteria?

When someone starts saying "Think of the children," we have passed fhe point of rational discussion.

Huh? Climate change used to be about the future. We used to be prodded to think of future generations of children who would be stuck living in a spoiled world that we left for them. Now we're all seeing climate change happening right now. Oh sorry, is that panicking and hand wringing? Too much for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Discussion isn’t panic.

Poster 7 on page 1:

“So are you a smoker? You don't mind breathing in asbestos? You don't mind if your children die of cancer down the line? How odd. I care. I don't want my kids to get those small particulates in their lungs simply for being outside. I'd rather they have a long, healthy life than a short one with a painful death. That's just me.”

Just curious if this is discussion or panic? Or hysteria.

That's what you consider hysteria?

When someone starts saying "Think of the children," we have passed fhe point of rational discussion.

Huh? Climate change used to be about the future. We used to be prodded to think of future generations of children who would be stuck living in a spoiled world that we left for them. Now we're all seeing climate change happening right now. Oh sorry, is that panicking and hand wringing? Too much for you?

By all means keep your children inside tomorrow if you think that will impact climate change.