Air pollution 
that air pollution just goes down with the rain into your soil and water. Itâs still there, just different location and much more expensive to test and let everyone know about on the fly.
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Sigh, itâs that time of year again. Iâm well into recovery from a cold, and thinking to myself tonight, âUh oh, why are my throat and nose feeling worse again?â
Oh. This is why.
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China has reduced air pollution greatly in recent years. Since Taiwanâs air pollution comes from China, we should notice a proportional reduction here too. Let me know when that happens.
Expect more sh&tty air quality along Taiwanâs west coast this week. The monsoon winds bringing the particles will finally relent over the weekend.
Guy
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Ive seen some videos from china recently. Already looks cleaner and more orderly than Taiwan. Seriously wtf are they doing here.
Itâs burning season. The summer growth, the typhoon deadfall, and the toxic paper money for the ancestors and ghosts
Itâs particles from the Gobi desert. Iâm not sure what exactly you want us to do about this other than put a huge filtering screen around the island.
Guy
My sardonic criticism is not about how to avoid wind from the continent to cross the strait. Itâs about the absolute zero measures implemented when unhealthy levels of air pollution happen. No local sources of pollution adding to the problem are affected. Just put a mask on and itâs all fine.
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Unhealthy people stay indoors sheâll be alright mateâŚ
Healthy people can just suck up that dust !
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First of all, it is either: âwe/hereâ or âthem/thereâ 
Just as a basic logic and sensical English language norm.
Second of all: normal weather patterns. Sure. Fair is fair.
Third of all: we(â/here) nee dyo tka especially responsibility in our sldust storms. Never kind just the simpleton aspect of: quantities of dust. But also the qualities of dust. Many of our dry and eroded lands, including river beds (not usually farmland or âdevelopedâ areas), are kicking up dust due to winds and all the environmental terrorism you, me and the next gut commit on the daily 
The actual toxicity of whatâs in the dust should be far more problematic to anyone with an internet connection. Cancer rates alone (check which cancers are most prevalent here) should be cause for alarm.
Naturally we get a geographic weather patterns. Tuis si normal and well known. Whatâs discussed less is the second tier of concern. Nevermind agriculture spray and the like become literally airborne, but also just basic land erosion outside agriculture. Moning, landslides, household cleaners, machinery leakages etc. All these become air borne. We should give a bigger glfuck about them being water and soil borne (we donâtâŚ). But they literally become airborne. Daily. I ahve hacked out probably a full kilogram worth of lung oyster today and yesterday. 1 dude, in one fo the least polluted places in Taiwan.
How we, as both a society and individuals, dont give more of a fuck is beyond words.
Iâm tired of people blaming cuine for everything. Blame them for what they are guilty on. And we can blame ourselves for what we are guilty of as well.
#objectivity
Are you having a stroke over here/there?
Alternatively, if there are indeed slut storms, I want pictures
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Lol what is this post. Makes an English criticism then goes on a drunken keyboard mashed rant.
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@Explant you often have some unique insights and perspectives. I wish I had the skill set to actually understand what youâre writing! 
Guy
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+1
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I guess thatâs today. I was hoping for a bike ride, but not with the current air: maybe itâll get better in the afternoon, but it doesnât look promising. The AQI forecast does say things should be a little better for the weekend, in the 50s and 60s.
Brief moment of wry disappointment: I typed in the air quality web address, and Safari took me there automatically. âOh, itâs dropped to 80! OK, maybe I can go out! Wait ⌠itâs giving me Beijing. Damn.â
Iâm envying Beijingâs air quality. Great.
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My chest feels funny, and not in a good way⌠
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Iâve been wasting my time checking weather.com. I didnât know their data was BS. Every other site shows above 100 for today
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I once knew a woman who wrecked her car due to an unexpected bout of incessant sneezing.
I get it now. Ten in a row⌠My nose is raw.
Odd. At first I assumed they were prioritizing different pollutants, but nope, they do indeed seem to have very different data, especially for PM10. aqicn and weather.com for Danshui currently:
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