what exactly does bad air quality do to make us vulnerable? Why can’t we just go outside and play?
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Bad air quality differs depending on context. Given what’s going on right now, you’re talking about smoke from the canadian wildfires?
Basically, the smoke particles get into your lungs and you’re not supposed to have particles in your lungs. Your body does have a mechanism to protect itself from that sort of thing, but there’s so much smoke that it overwhelms that mechanism and the particles end up interfering with lung operations and causing damage. If it’s bad enough or long enough the damage can be permanent.
It’s better to stay inside where you have filters that will take out enough of the particles to reduce the risk of damage.
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