It reminded me of this song I like:
I got a really sore throat the first day the pollution index was over 300 and ended up getting really sick for a day. At my last check up (I go once a week now for the baby) my doctor mentioned half her patients had a cold this week. I worry a lot about whether the pollution will hurt the baby. My students seem to be coughing and sniffling non-stop. I run our air purifier whenever I'm in the house. I've started wearing a PM2.5 mask whenever I'm outside now. It makes me feel really Chinese. I remember when we first moved to Asia and I saw people wearing masks I thought it was so odd. Now I get it. I cringe every time I see people smoking. Instead of paying for cigarettes they should just breath deep and get all their toxins that way.
The only time I saw air quality this bad in the states was by the twin towers during few weeks after 9/11. The pollution index is currently 203 (very unhealthy). Better than earlier this morning when it was 408 (hazardous). http://aqicn.org/city/shanghai/ Between this and the typhoon flooding in October there seem to be a lot of signs we need to move back to America. I miss home. This sucks.
