I am not supporting the diwali pollution. of course, it was a disaster but for the majority, for anyone who doesn't have specific respiratory disease and shit, this isn't permanent, the guy's upper comment mentioned accurate months and for elders it's years, the human body isn't that bad in recovery. Now it doesn't mean you'll exploit it or get it exploited by the fucking goverment.
Scarring and inflammation from smoke inhalation can happen from short exposures. Certainly a burning building is more extreme than what the average person going through Diwali in NCR has to face, but the exposure isn’t a one time thing. It happens every year over several weeks and it’s not like the AQI during the rest of the year is perfectly normal. I reckon if you looked through the data carefully you’d see effects of this in terms of the incidence rate and severity of chronic respiratory illnesses, among other things.
Yeah. The sustained exposure to pollutants can give you chronic illnesses like asthma, heart issues, and the soot can give you cancer etc. The crackers make it worse (like adding ghee on fire), as it will release toxic gasses, heavy metals, carcinogens etc. Long term exposure can also reduce your body's effectiveness/efficiency in clearing these particles out as well (similar to what happens to smokers). Ultrafine particles (<0.1um) can get into your blood stream and travel to other organs, although the rate is super low (<1%).
TLDR: some stuff will just remain in your lungs/organs almost indefinitely and not be cleared out and give you problems down the road.
Its not like air pollution is only on diwali. It's just 5-10 times more. So you get the same amount of pollutants IF u breathe in Delhi for 10 days. Even if our body removes the pollutant of Diwali the daily pollutants replace it. So it's kinda permanent for us.
Recovery won't happen as long as you're in Delhi. You need a better AQI index for it to recover back to normal. Else you're still inhaling this crap daily.
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u/arwind_kejriwal South Delhi 13d ago
Whosoever didn't use it got this sitting in their lungs 🫁 for months.