Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
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#2> Many of our COPD patients who need regular follow-up haven’t shown up because their symptoms have eased. Some have called to say they don’t require oxygen therapy anymore.”
If this is at all similar to the experience in the US, while some people may have seen their symptoms improve, a lot of people are avoiding doctors and hospitals out of fear of getting COVID, and are skipping out on routine checkups and care.
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#3Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.
Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
#4Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.
It doesn't hang around in the air at its point of origin for decades.
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#5Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.
Mostly a severe reduction in air travel (airplane fuel is really really really bad for the environment)
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#6Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.
You've probably never been in a city that has bad pollution if you think this way.
Of course, 3 months of lockdown won't eliminate decades of pollution, but clearing the air and letting all the airborn suspended particles fall to the ground and pulling the dust out of the air makes it clear.
The other viewpoint is that you just don't realize how bad modern pollution is. In Toronto, ON, people are reporting being able to see Niagara Falls from a regular vantage point in the city after a few months of shutdown.
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#7Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.
Mostly a severe reduction in air travel (airplane fuel is really really really bad for the environment)
Unlikely. Usually mostly due to agricultural burning and motor vehicles.
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#9This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.
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#10Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.
Its similar to Vitamin C being water soluble.
It has to be replenished daily or you get scurvy.
The environment has scurvy.