Relived that the AQI is down to reasonable levels here for now. I've been masking up outdoors since the miasma showed up a few days ago, and that's been effective in protecting my lungs. So the limiting factor for outdoor activity (other than the heat) for me has been my eyes, which would start to get really irritated after half an hour or so.,
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@mattblaze I just want to thank you for your utterly appropriate use of the word "miasma".
Thanks for the reports on this.
The news (that I see, anyway) doesn't give any idea of what this means in real life.
In Japan, Kagoshima City gets covered in new volcanic dust every so often. That's a worry. Tokyo is built on three multi-meter layers of volcanic ash, all laid down in geologically recent times. I kept telling my doc that my interstitial pneumonia last year was due to dust from said ash. He wasn't amused.
I doubt masking would help if Tokyo gets a fourth layer...
@mattblaze when we had fires here (dusk at midday) I rigged up an air purifier from a vacuum cleaner HEPA filter, a computer case fan (very large), gaffer tape and a battery charger. Worked well enough once we sealed up all the drafts.
@davedave Yeah, I've had indoors pretty well covered with a few commercial air purifiers and Corsi-Rosenthal boxes in different rooms. But outdoors has been brutal.
Yeah, likewise as a result of the bushfires here ("Black Summer" 2019-2020) and the smoke covering Melbourne (albeit not as bad as Sydney) I had some good respirator masks remaining for when the pandemic followed almost immediately.
The people directly affected didn't really get to clean up/rebuild/mourn/heal before all that began.
