I’ve felt absolutely bloody tip top in the relatively unpolluted atmosphere of northern NZ for the last month.. (thinking about it.. a gazillion square miles of impenetrable bush and jungle, and a tiny fraction of the traffic and industry, miles from the nearest continent, s’probly the cleanest air I’ve ever encountered by a very long margin)
On landing back in the UK I almost instantly got a temperature, very painful chesty cough, with lethargy and itchy eyes and nose.. feel generally pretty grim
On the way over to NZ I had a stopover in Guangzhou 100 miles north of Hong Kong..
The pollution there was like a brown inland sea mist and smelt of school chemistry laboratories..
Speaking of sea mist, there was a proper pea souper down here on the SW coast all day yesterday.. It didn’t stop the holiday makers though, who toughed it out on the sand in the damp freezing murk.. silly really as it was warm, bright and sunny just 500yards inland 🙂
I dunno if all or any of these observations are connected 🙁
(except that the mists created by the arrival of a cold front are probably being referred to as pollution by panicking hipsters and chavs)