Both me and my younger brother have gotten asthma living here in China, they call It the airpocolypse. Approximately 4400 people die in china each day because of this pollution, that's around 1.6 million each year... It is crazy.. that's almost 5 times the population of Iceland!
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I've had some of the worst lung infections of my life here. It was to the point where I was coughing so hard I bruised my ribs. I've also had a lot of friends mention their hair becoming frail and falling out. One of my close friends lost his eye brows little by little. He moved back to the UK and now they are slowly growing back.
I'm heading back next year to Sweden, its hard to justify staying here when the air is so bad...
Fair enough! I miss the fresh air in Canada. It's funny though because Hangzhou actually has tremendously fresh air compared to the city I was in before. It averages at around 150 aqi everyday but I've seen it get up to 800.
Man, that is really bad! I guess It is all the coal they use up there in the more northern parts. I guess it's a way of looking at it, eventhough it's not good air compared to Canada and Sweden, for China the air in Hangzhou is not the worst :)