The reading on its index rose to over 1,600.

That’s absolutely insane. The highest I’ve ever seen in Korea (which is usually about 3-5x worse than Canada or the US) was 300. I cannot imagine 1600.

Edit: at least it’s not plastic or factory output

Parts of northern India and Pakistan experience severe air pollution each year in the late fall, as farmers burn straw left over from their rice harvests to make room for new planting. But even for a region with cities that regularly top the list of the world’s most polluted, the air quality readings this year have been dire.

https://archive.is/SOEcL

Anocdata.

My friend has stage 3 cancer.

Her chemo killed her white blood cells.

If she gets sick, she dies.

She can’t get a flu shot. She depends on people around her getting flu shots.

Please get the flu shot 🦆

To answer the title, “burnt out from too many irrelevant Trump articles”