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Cameron Sours's avatar

I can survive a day or a week or a month of seasonal allergies, but my activities are significantly curtailed. We could probably save hundreds of lives a year with what I spend on allergy mitigations, but my life would be significantly poorer.

My point of view is extremely biased towards my own welfare, but it's the only point of view I've got

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Rafael Milcic's avatar

Discussions on this subject focus on size, but a thing I don’t see discussed is whether type of particle matters.

Intuitively, it seems that a droplet of water (cue aromatherapy diffuser article) is biomechanically different from a particle of soot, but my knowledge takes a sharp cliff dive there.

Maybe since in aggregate, the types of particles in these size ranges are usually bad (tire dust, wood soot…) so its kind of irrelevant for most discussions 🤷

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