Air quality can be tracked here:
How polluted is the air today? Check out the real-time air pollution map, for more than 100 countries.
aqicn.org
Windy.com has a live SO2 map:
https://www.windy.com/-SO2-mass-so2sm?so2sm,31.091,116.895,4,m:eiOajYZ
Also this...
Something's chucking out a lot of pollution in a city that's basically stopped dead right now.
This doesn't make any sense if you think about it. The city isn't dead, it's winter and everyone is indoors by law with heaters probably on 24/7 (China has centralised heaters), as opposed to the usual routine of work and going outside and having the heater on for maybe 8 or 10 hours.
Generation of electricity from non-renewable sources (coal, gas etc) also produces SO2. I'm willing to argue that being a neet produces more pollution in such a case.
1300? Yeah, I'm not buying it. Windy's numbers are very similar to aqicn.org.
The region seems to average at around 250.
"Even the biggest city in the world shanghai..."
Are you sure?
Wuhan and surroundings outdo Shanghai by a factor of 3.
I have no idea how they got the 1300 something. Does Windy.com keep historic data that can be found somewhere and viewed? Or is the person who captured it there at the right moment?
Then basing China off Gmaps is very stupid. I did that several years back. It showed rivers and shit while all I can see were roads. Gmaps doesn't work for China.
Here's where the cords correspond to:
About 120km by car. 2 hours is doable.
Arrow points to a PO present in both locations.
Yeah, this isn't "a field", not anymore at least.
Look, CCP is definitely hiding the actual numbers whether they want to or not, the numbers they claim are lower than reality. Chinese politicians will lie about the numbers to make their district look less severe, 500 is far from accurate. Even if the CCP wants to be 100% transparent, nobody should trust their numbers because the likely millions of hospitals, many of which will for sure lie about it, the lie just gets amplified again and again. It's well above that, I won't be surprised if it's 1000 or even 1500.
If you look on controlled sites such as the baidu tieba for each city with a major outbreak, everything is censored. No one is allowed to comment, and really there's only good news being posted. Sino weibo is different, so is Tencent QQ and Wechat, where censorship isn't as intuitive.
If I was to speculate, assuming someone didn't just inspect element the windy.com number (it's doable), I'm guessing it's just a glitch. When the bushfires were rampant in NSW, I was constantly tracking the air quality. I did see the number bounce to >999, I also saw areas totally unaffected by the bushfires have >999.
Just look at this, I just screenshotted it:
Not that Melbourne isn't a Hazardous shithole, but AQI of 632? It's not New Delhi.
Would be great if there's a way to find historical trends on windy.com. There definitely is, I just couldn't find it.
That Law if correctly translated isn’t actually unreasonable. And is almost boilerplate the same as similar Public Health Laws round in the modern industrialized world going back 500 years. It actually seems to be a very Western Law. Most don’t realize how much teeth the Public Health and Disaster management laws have. The main thing is they have a high threshold of activation. Pre DHS FEMA had some scary powers for when shit hit the fan. And while it seems a quaint anachronism today there is a reason why the Surgeon General was one of the three civilian “Generals” in the US Presidential Cabinet. Alongside Attorney General and Postmaster General. In times of National crisis these three were empowered to maintain Law, Communications and Public Health. The three tasked to prevent the breakdown of social order in the event of a major disaster.
I personally think it is unreasonable, it's basically state sanctioned robbery, like taxes, which I also consider robbery. I'm happy to pay taxes if they make infrastructure in my area better, they don't. I'm happy to spare masks for charity/hospitals, just ask me. Simply seizing it rubs me the wrong way.
I wasn't able to find any western equivalent, maybe it's because I just don't know the technical jargon in order to find it.
California does have a law that allow police to seize control of civilian vehicles to make an arrest, and if the person denies, he or she is fined $50-1000.
California Penal Code
Sec. 150
Every able-bodied person above 18 years of age who neglects or refuses to join the posse comitatus or power of the county, by neglecting or refusing to aid and assist in taking or arresting any person against whom there may be issued any process, or by neglecting to aid and assist in retaking any person who, after being arrested or confined, may have escaped from arrest or imprisonment, or by neglecting or refusing to aid and assist in preventing any breach of the peace, or the commission of any criminal offense, being thereto lawfully required by any uniformed peace officer, or by any peace officer described in Section 830.1, subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, who identifies himself or herself with a badge or identification card issued by the officers employing agency, or by any judge, is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
1) the law IS unreasonable, here there and everywhere. Many western countries do indeed still carry some awful laws from the past, remnants of the horrors of the 20th century that honestly should get purged already but aren't because our systems are built to avoid the issues of radical changes and as such limit lawmaking, making fixing the legal system an arduous place that often times gets relegated in favor of reacting to more immediate issues.
2) BUT, thing is, such laws haven't been implemented in a western country since... well fuck since even before ww2. Hell most countries didn't even abuse such powers during the spanish flu outbreak. When implemented like that they are quite horrifying, but they haven't been implemented like that, because the government knows it would cause outrage. It's not the best solution but it does take quite a bit of teeth away from them. That's why people don't care, because they haven't seen it happen.
Honestly this really is something people should take more care with. Many western countries still have laws that could, given the right circumstance, plunge them back into fascism in a manner very similar to the rise of the cesars. We should get fixing that, but it's hard when lawmakers already have to spend most of their time dealing with each other's new and innovative ways to fuck up the laws even further.
Yeah, unreasonable. However most Chinese will disagree with you.
Someone brought up the fact that many people are buying numerous boxes of masks while critical locations lack them, for whatever reason. Surely a family of 3 or even 5 doesn't need 4 boxes of masks. Either way, I insist it on being state robbery. I'm just glad at least they are being compensated, and the items are taken proportionally. This means if one buys like 20, they won't just take them. If it's 200, then they'd likely take 150 or something.
But then I still think common sense stuff doesn't work on a nation with 1.4 billion fucking people. Going by the bell curve, that's well above a quarter billion brainlets.
I also forgot to post this:
Allegedly caused by some subhuman slant tossing cig butts out of the window, caused a massive blaze on a level that's being disinfected.
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