You Have Tornadoes, We Have Smog
I get amused at all the "Eco-warrior" nut ex-pats living in Beijing. If you did not know about the smog issues here, you live in a cave. Once here, there is only so much you can do.
Above all the advice below: shut up about it. We vets don't want to hear it and we don't want to be rude, but you sound like a broken record, checking your smog app for daily readings, usually bad.
I choose to worry about getting run over crossing the street. Still use herd mentality. All cross together, the left-hand turn people (who should yield, don't), but you can't get us all - so like lemmings I cross safely mixed in with the masses.
About 25% of Beijingers wear disposable smog masks. I don't. I smoke, so why bother, and; two, you sweat in those things, I feel claustrophobic in them.
What we have all done is buy home air purifiers. Can't stop smog, but you can keep it out of the house, so that just leaves commuting. I am far more worried about cootie-bugs from the subway than any potential lung ailment from smog. I try not to think about how mant people have grabbed that handle or door that DAY, let alone last time disinfected.
The Beijing subway is clean, if crowded. Ever expanding, it opened up on my corner which will ease my commuting considerably. New job coming up, more on that later.
Above all the advice below: shut up about it. We vets don't want to hear it and we don't want to be rude, but you sound like a broken record, checking your smog app for daily readings, usually bad.
I choose to worry about getting run over crossing the street. Still use herd mentality. All cross together, the left-hand turn people (who should yield, don't), but you can't get us all - so like lemmings I cross safely mixed in with the masses.
About 25% of Beijingers wear disposable smog masks. I don't. I smoke, so why bother, and; two, you sweat in those things, I feel claustrophobic in them.
What we have all done is buy home air purifiers. Can't stop smog, but you can keep it out of the house, so that just leaves commuting. I am far more worried about cootie-bugs from the subway than any potential lung ailment from smog. I try not to think about how mant people have grabbed that handle or door that DAY, let alone last time disinfected.
The Beijing subway is clean, if crowded. Ever expanding, it opened up on my corner which will ease my commuting considerably. New job coming up, more on that later.
