I stay quiet, but I'm seeing ultraviolet

[sovay]

Apparently our particulate pollution levels are officially unhealthy for sensitive groups, which explains not only the light brass tint to the afternoon but the rather massive asthma attack I had instead of sleeping for the entire morning. The day before, I couldn't enjoy the rain because it came with a headache so skull-crunching, I actually sort of passed out from it at a terrible hour to the rest of my schedule. I was under non-joking doctor's orders to rest up this weekend and it has not vaguely happened. I keep being light-headed, ear-ringing, unfocusable. My brain feels like a flickering commodity and I don't like worrying about false flags.

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[ethelmay]

We are fully tricked out with air quality monitor and air purifiers and such (and sometimes add a box fan with a furnace filter if we could use some moving air as well - we have air conditioning but in Seattle we don't often need it, and the house gets stuffy when we can't open the windows) and I still utterly hate it when we get wildfire smoke.

[sovay]

We are fully tricked out with air quality monitor and air purifiers and such (and sometimes add a box fan with a furnace filter if we could use some moving air as well - we have air conditioning but in Seattle we don't often need it, and the house gets stuffy when we can't open the windows) and I still utterly hate it when we get wildfire smoke.

Many sympathies. We have our A/C and our air cleaner going full blast and I am on so much albuterol.

[ethelmay]

We haven't gotten smoke yet this year, but have had some awful times in past years. I often wonder how it compares overall to the smog in my childhood.