I would describe myself as "not a fan" of wildfire smoke blanketing New York City. Apologies if this offends.
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in reply to @whit's post:
same and also, kinda messed up how people are still skipping masks during this. like the mask actually helps you personally this time.
correct, but in the "wrong" direction for the antimaskers. like they wanted it to be that the things an individual did helped the individual directly, although i should probably know better than to engage with their rhetoric as though it was made in good faith
Masks filter in both directions. They protect the person wearing one from Covid by filtering incoming virus particles and they protect bystanders by filtering outgoing virus particles. Even inferior solutions filter out 38% of incoming viral load, see Sickbert-Bennett et al 2020.
I think everyone here knows that masking is good for covid in all directions and this discussion thread does not need to continue. :)
I know everyone here is on the same page and has good intentions, so no need for any back and forth!
Walking up 2nd Ave and just seeing the visibility getting worse block by block is a surreal and disconcerting experience. And just an hour before I had been thinking "ah, it smells so nice after it rains!"
I would say I particular do not enjoy this while being asthmatic, like four days after recovering from being sick
Geez I'm sorry Whit. My partner and I have been recovering from some summer colds and it really is just the bad cherry on the bad sundae. (This is a theoretical sundae, of course. There is no real bad sundaes, that would be ridiculous.)
I'm outside the city limits, but I've seen better. 2/5, would not recommend to a friend. I ended up wearing a mask to bed.