Transcript
All right guys, this is a $5,000 air quality monitor and the results are terrified. Look, it shows how many micrograms per cubic meter we've got in each particle size. And the current weather alerts are all based on the 2.5 micron. See the left where it says one and three. It's between those two, but those are not even the biggest ones. And the smaller ones penetrate deeper into your lungs, have a worse health impact, and are a lot harder to filter out. You need the true hepa filter to really get a lot of the smaller ones. So yeah, wear your mask, get your filters, stay inside, be careful.
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Caption: ‼️IMPORTANT: while this is worrying, and it’s important to take precautions to minumize risk, this whole thing is the biggest high risk for elderly folks and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases. Exposures on the order of hours or even days are going to have a temporary irritating effect but no real long term implications for those who are otherwise healthy. But it may cause short term irritation and even some impaired brain function #wildfire #wildfire2023 #wildfirecanada #canada #canadawildfire #airquality #airqualityalert #airqualityalert #newyorkcity #newyork #longisland #queensnyc
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