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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maryland’s air quality was deemed hazardous today. I’m keeping my kids home.
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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.  [/quote]

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

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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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?[/quote]

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

It’s the same air.  I smell the smoke inside also.  [/quote]

The smell is actually not the problem. The particulates are the problem.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

Total false equivalency.[/quote]

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.[/quote]
This. People need to do some research on PM2.5. Even short-term exposures can have long-term effects.[/quote]

Care to elaborate?  Given how many smoky days there are in many areas in CA and other western states every year, [b]the populace there must be dealing with some pretty substantial long term effects. [/b] This 2 day smoke, which you say can have sone long term effects, is pretty minimal in comparison.[/quote]

Yes.[/quote]

Studies please?[/quote]

Look it up yourself. It's like asking for studies demonstrating that leaded gasoline is bad for public health. Or cigarettes.[/quote]

The effects of chronic pollution are well known.  I’m not sure anyone can say what the consequences of two days of bad air is though, in the grand scheme of things. Likely depends if you carried on as normal and ran 10 miles vs. generally stayed inside.  The Canadians are probably effed though.[/quote]

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