Wildfire Haze - What can we do individually and collectively to protect ourselves?
We can help ourselves by staying indoors and wearing masks if you have to go outside. Certainly, exercising outside is not a good idea even while wearing a mask. Also, if you have a central air conditioning system, you can turn on the fan to run the air through the filter, which will remove some of these particles. It depends on what kind of filter you have — high efficiency or regular.
Make sure that it's an N-95 mask, not a surgical mask. A surgical mask is not is not going to help you at all.
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