Life in a Shower
I missed my weekly bike ride this weekend because the air pollution was too bad to even be outdoors for more than an hour, much less exercise heavily. I also decided to skip an outdoor pool party, but still managed to float around in an indoor pool for a couple hours with friends. Overall, we were trapped indoors all weekend because the air resembled pea soup. Except not green, just white/gray.
I missed my weekly bike ride this weekend because the air pollution was too bad to even be outdoors for more than an hour, much less exercise heavily. I also decided to skip an outdoor pool party, but still managed to float around in an indoor pool for a couple hours with friends. Overall, we were trapped indoors all weekend because the air resembled pea soup. Except not green, just white/gray.
The air pollution index has been over 100 for the past four days. 113 on Thurs, 110 Friday, 115 on Saturday, and on Sunday it hit 125 right before the measurement deadline (Caijing Magazine).
However, despite the pollution index reports, the government assures us that the air quality is not as bad as it looks. Regard this sentence from a magazine article quoting a government official. “…..Haze/Fog does not represent air pollution. He [the govt official] expresses that this haze/fog decreases air visibility, but ‘it is like being in a bathroom taking a shower where you can’t see the person across from you.’”
