Canadian wildfires killed 82,000 people in 2023
I'm not surprised. I don't live near the wildfires, but our air quality was often in the danger zone these past few years. Yet I saw people out walking, jogging, cycling... without any kind of mask or respirator, as if they were oblivious to the dangers.
I mean, FFS, even the photo in the article, if the guy spraying the ground. The SKY IS ORANGE, and he's out without a mask or anything. Dude, WTF?
Any weather app would give you a notification about air quality pretty early in advance, so it's not like most people would be caught-out unexpectedly.
And it's not like we haven't normalized "masking up" by now, since the pandemic. So it's such a small inconvenience to save your lungs. Just do it.