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I live in the area. It's 150 AQI right now. In one extreme Winter evening, I measured 1200 PM2.5.... I don't know how it would translate to AQI, but I imagine i

• Tade0 4y ago
  Do people generally see it as a problem or is it sort of an "it is what it is" type of situation? I'm asking because I moved to this region of the country just a few years ago and I'm genuinely confused. I had a very weird conversation with a daycare worker about the air filters I found in the building. I thought they were there due to outside air, but apparently they bought them to filter the air inside and she saw the level of pollution as something "typical for a large city".
  • badpun 4y ago
    The awareness of the fact that extreme smog is not cool is growing, but still a large group of people (perhaps even a majority) accept it as a fact of life. In the eighties, it was so much worse here (there were heavy industrial plants - steel mills etc., without any pollution filtering, running at full steam in city centers of Zabrze, Katowice, Bytom etc.), that those who rememeber it perhaps still see current situation as a massive improvement.