From today's guardian live feed:
"Dirty air is known to cause lung and heart damage and is responsible for at least 8m early deaths a year. This underlying health damage means respiratory infections, such as coronavirus, may well have a more serious impact on city dwellers and those exposed to toxic fumes, than on others."
Not posting this to in any way try and play down the seriousness of the coronavirus which is tragedy but once we get through this I hope that we might all have a bit of a think and reassess how we go about certain things and that some of the new habits we have formed will stick, a reduction in unnecessary travel being one of them. Hopefully with everyone being set up to work from home then more widespread flexible working practices may evolve.
That said we are presumably all going to have to travel everywhere in our cars for the next few months to avoid public transport.
Posted By: Jim, Mar 17, 10:55:49
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