Air Quality Actually "Poses No Health Risk..." If You Believe Fox News - Thom Hartmann

[Rhiannon12866]

9 million people a year die from air pollution but Fox News wants you to believe the smoke is actually healthy to breathe. Fox is also reporting that war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength…notice anything strange here??? - 06/17/2023.

[burrowowl]

1. Kick

[CentralMass]

2. Fox Noise has its own wing with reservations waiting for them in Hell.

[Warpy]

3. The old joke used to be that New Yorkers didn't trust air they couldn't see

I had to wheeze into inhalers in both NYC and Boston and that was on good days. East coast urban air is nasty.

However, forest fire cold drift smoke in the air is a whole other level of nastiness. Even people in great shape feel that elephant sitting on their chests when they go outdoors.

Ingraham might have a different take if she had to walk a couple of blocks instead of going from canned air in her apartment to canned air in a limo to canned air in the studio.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I've seen the photos, you can't even see across the street.

I'm in Northeastern New York, nowhere New York City, but when I was driving last week there was a definite haze. And we also had air quality warnings.

[Warpy]

5. We had a similar problem in Boston many decades ago

The fires were somewhere in Appalachia, what we got was the drift smoke. The air was thick and the sun was orange and it was horrible.

The worst smoke in NM generally comes from fires in AZ. Having to be out in it for any length of time is like smoking multiple packs of cigarettes in terms of damage. Ugh.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. We're just inside the "safe air" zone at the moment, I'm wondering if it's because it rained

And I didn't have breathing issues last week, but my eyes bothered me, they kind of burned.

I have been to Arizona and I never thought of a fire danger there, but I know it's quite dry. I was there for spring vacation once, visiting my grandmother who was spending the winter there - and, coming from the Northeast near the lakes and mountains, it was definitely the most unusual place I've ever been. My grandmother was friendly with the couple who lived next door and when it got down to 70 degrees, the lady would go out in a winter coat when she walked her cat!

[Warpy]

8. Soud's about right

Rain does was a lot of the particulates out of the air, Just look at cars that have been kept outside, they should be pretty sooty.

As for the lady in her winter coat in 70 degree weather, if she's acclimated to triple digit heat in the summer, 70 would be frigid. Co irkers used to be astonished that I never wore a coat until it got down in the low 40s here. I tried to explain Boston winters to them, but it didn't compute.

Because of the altitude, it gets as cold here as it does in Boston, but the sun is a lot stronger at this latitude. Put me in the sun when the temperature is in the high 40s and I'm nice and warm.

[MagaSmash]

7. So I'm gonna start smoking Camel Cigarettes now to "improve my health."