Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 09:50     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:Everyone is like “we’ll deal!”

Ha. Ha. Ha.

I manage a team of direct reports based in India and my engineers (from top ten engineering colleges) all live hermetically sealed lives in their either air conditioned cars or houses. The AQI in New Delhi/NCR frequently hits 150+ in winter and people literally do not go outside.

That, plus life as dual income salaried engineers gets you a 2HR+ commute each way and crumbling privatized infrastructure.

Prepare - this reality is coming for knowledge workers in northern OECD countries and sooner rather than later due to Chicken Taco.


Except for all the people who actually live on the street and in slums. Except for all of them, you know.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 09:41     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Maybe they don't care. Maybe the warnings are ineffective and unnecessary.

I don't need any more Government warnings pushed to my phone unless is it's a time sensitive and truly life threatening.

Keep your good ideas to yourself.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 09:38     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Find an app that does it. Or make one.

People can opt into notifications / settings.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 09:32     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:For people with apps, do you use Paku for Purple Air, or IQAir? I’ve heard the EPA AirNow doesn’t actually reflect up to date conditions.


I have a Purple Air sensor and I just use the map on their website and have it saved for mobile.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 09:30     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Everyone is like “we’ll deal!”

Ha. Ha. Ha.

I manage a team of direct reports based in India and my engineers (from top ten engineering colleges) all live hermetically sealed lives in their either air conditioned cars or houses. The AQI in New Delhi/NCR frequently hits 150+ in winter and people literally do not go outside.

That, plus life as dual income salaried engineers gets you a 2HR+ commute each way and crumbling privatized infrastructure.

Prepare - this reality is coming for knowledge workers in northern OECD countries and sooner rather than later due to Chicken Taco.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 08:28     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:We lived in Asia for years and I’m very aware of air quality and will limit outside time if it’s over 150. But my neighbors generally aren’t concerned. I see the air quality on my weather app. It’s in the news. Not sure a separate alert is needed.

Where I lived in Asia, people just went about their daily lives. AQ concerns weren’t really a thing until the Americans came.


Asia has the highest rate of air pollution deaths in the world.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 18:12     Subject: Re:Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We defunded this service to make america great and/or healthy again. I forget which...


Did we? I don't remember getting alerts due to low air quality even pre Drumpf.


There is literally an app for that. The EPA's AirNow app will push notifications to your phone every day to let you know the AQ in your area and when to take caution.


You can even set the level at which you want to be notified. Appears to be updated as of today.


Also, the state (in my case MD) Dept of the Environment provides the interpretation. Today’s is about 250 words.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 18:09     Subject: Re:Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We defunded this service to make america great and/or healthy again. I forget which...


Did we? I don't remember getting alerts due to low air quality even pre Drumpf.


There is literally an app for that. The EPA's AirNow app will push notifications to your phone every day to let you know the AQ in your area and when to take caution.


You can even set the level at which you want to be notified. Appears to be updated as of today.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 16:35     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:All this will be privatized. You will get as much forecast as you are willing to pay. Taxes don't count, those are for the valiant military and other "entitlements"


Get ready for your subscription to air. You thought you bought it? Nope subscription only.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 15:33     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else think this thread was about al-Qaeda?


Raises hand! I was thinking haven't heard about them in a while maybe they decided to pop back up again.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 15:24     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
For people with apps, do you use Paku for Purple Air, or IQAir? I’ve heard the EPA AirNow doesn’t actually reflect up to date conditions.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 14:58     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:They got fired.
You can still find the into but you have to search for it, and it’s spotty.


You don’t have to search for it. It’s on your weather app, right below the forecast.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 14:33     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
They got fired.
You can still find the into but you have to search for it, and it’s spotty.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 14:30     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I suppose these are not pushed out as emergencies because they're not. For a tiny subset of people, lower AQ is an emergency, but that is not sufficient to make every phone ding.

And you probably just not subscribed to (or have bookmarked) the already existing AQ monitoring by the public university in your state. After all, where do you think Apple is getting the info from? They're not making it up themselves.

At least that's how it works where I live. We have abysmal AQ in winter b/c of temperature inversions. Then often wildfire-caused AQ in summer.

I click the little triangle on my weather app, but I also check the University/State gov website that puts out the daily report that Apple probably relies on.


+1 it's not an emergency like something awful is suddenly going to happen to you

In a lot of Asia where air quality is bad yes people are aware but life goes on

You are welcome to postpone car travel and sit in your house


Life goes on, but in Asia people wear masks. And they hurry from building to building and all the indoor spaces tend to have air purification at least in the major city. In the US, I can literally see and smell smoke in the air and there are 3 year olds playing on trikes outsides and infants in strollers bc dad wanted to pick up donuts.


In my experience this isn’t accurate, at least for parts of China. Some of the new buildings in tier one cities may have air purification systems but my office in China did not. We had a large standalone air purifier in our office and my young coworkers would open the windows for “fresh air” even though you couldn’t see farther than 15 feet. Most masks worn aren’t designed for AQ concerns. The old belief that the bad air makes your lungs stronger wasn’t necessarily something that people actually believed but they often didn’t see the concerns either.
Anonymous
Post 06/05/2025 14:19     Subject: Why doesn't govt push out AQ warnings?
Anonymous wrote:We used to here in the DMV.


I thought I remembered getting them when we had all the smoke from the Canadian fires.