Nitrogen dioxide emissions drop over Italy
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#2Even more importantly, I assume regions affected by bad air quality like North Italy are also the worst with regard to cronic respiratory issues in the general population, which makes the situation a lot worse.
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#3Reduced travel and industry will see this happen and saw this in China, globally over the year the effect will be interesting and whilst it will do wonders for the climate. One aspect that I'm currently pondering is the winter 20/21. Reason being that it has been shown that less planes flying means temperature difference day/night, slightly warmer during day, but also colder at night. As we saw for the days post 9/11 in America.
So whilst the effect upon climate from this virus is going to be notable, what will the impact upon the 20/21 winter, will it make it more inclined to be colder (normal for many parts). That is the aspect that intrigues me.
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#4After two weeks the air over Europe will be cleanest since the long long long time ago.
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#5We’re another type of virus on this planet, we need to remember that and remember what it feels like to be under attack by one. Hopefully we then adjust behaviour accordingly.
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#6This lines up with a hypothesis I've got that this is causing severe cases in places where there is a high baseline of lung damage. Either from asthma or other genetic conditions, or from exposure to poor air quality.
Such that these lock downs are preventing more bad cases, but not by preventing the spread of covid, but by limiting exposure to other things. In this case, it could be lowering emissions period, which makes the entire place a bit more hospitable.
Which implies several things. One, the lock down for the states could be superfluous. Most places here have better air already.
Two, covid is already everywhere. The exponential growth we are seeing happened a couple months ago, such that now we are just seeing how fast we can deploy testing.
Three, we really need to focus on a cleaner environment. The old saying of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is clearly false (if this hypothesis is true), it makes you easier to be killed.
As I've said in another post, I expect I'm wrong in this. So would love to or how/why.
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#7After two weeks the air over Europe will be cleanest since the long long long time ago.
Not just Europe, but also China and a host of other countries I bet.
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#8This lines up with a hypothesis I've got that this is causing severe cases in places where there is a high baseline of lung damage. Either from asthma or other genetic conditions, or from exposure to poor air quality. Such that these lock downs are preventing more bad cases, but not by preventing the spread of covid, but by limiting exposure to other things. In this case, it could be lowering emissions period, which…
So why not India?
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#9This lines up with a hypothesis I've got that this is causing severe cases in places where there is a high baseline of lung damage. Either from asthma or other genetic conditions, or from exposure to poor air quality. Such that these lock downs are preventing more bad cases, but not by preventing the spread of covid, but by limiting exposure to other things. In this case, it could be lowering emissions period, which…
Poor air quality is correlated with population density. As is spread of infectious diseases.
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#10TIL: Northern Italy was pretty fucked up emission-wise even before Corona kicked in.