image search breathing problems within the past week.
take the mask off then.
20 December 2021 <- From the future
The app on my phone tells me that the AQI level is two. My lungs tell me the same as I let the fresh, odourless, crisp, rejuvenating air flood my respiratory system. Alas, this is not my city. This is London. At the same moment, my city of New Delhi records an AQI of 342, and even this looks like a good day in terms of air quality, at least when compared to the many 500+ days we have seen this winter.
It pains me to think that many of my fellow residents of Delhi and northern plains may never ever get an opportunity to know what breathing pure air feels like. It makes me angry that more than 300 million people of this region are condemned to live in the gas chamber we call home. It shames me that my birthplace is the most polluted capital in the world once again. It saddens me that all our efforts to protect the ‘right to breathe’ of our people have had zero impact.
For as long as I remember, the air I have breathed has been in poor, very poor or severe categories. The good days have been so far and few in between that even their memories have disappeared in the greyish brown haze that surrounds us. The invisible suspended particulate matter took control of my life quite early in my childhood, forcing me to make innumerable trips to paediatricians, ENT and respiratory specialists. Antihistamines, steroid puffs and nebulisers were as much a part of my childhood as were toys and cartoons. But what troubled me more than the bouts of breathlessness and cough that I suffered, was that no one cared about what I and millions of others like me, were going through.
yadayada…
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/india-news-right-to-breathe-air-pollution-a-non-issue-when-will-our-politicians-wake-up/305271
Joan Rivers, 3 days ago?
pic linked to article from 2014.
what was updated?
https://www.eonline.com/news/574134/joan-rivers-in-hospital-in-stable-condition-following-throat-surgery-complications
a lot of fog there.