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CivilTax00100100 t1_it31ezt wrote

Reply to comment by jjmac in Air quality around Seattle ranked worst in the world by SounderBruce

Is that the kind of level that affects your health? Maybe not now.. but later on?

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chadenright t1_it3atsr wrote

-Everything- affects your health long-term. Living in vancouver right now...but it's way better than Bakersfield, California where basically everyone who stays there develops lung and nasal problems. Bakersfield has this kind of fungus in the soil which isn't usually a problem....until dust storms kick it into the air, people breathe it in and develop something called valley fever. Which was killing enough people that the nearby prison had to shut down; inmates kept dropping dead.

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Kevin_Wolf t1_it3ixsk wrote

>Which was killing enough people that the nearby prison had to shut down; inmates kept dropping dead.

Which "nearby prison" are you talking about? As far as I can see, all of Kern County's prisons that have been open for years are still open. Kern has 5 or 6 state prisons. If one prison had inmates dropping from valley fever badly enough that they had to close, then they all would.

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