It’s not like air pollution is a picnic with unicorns and puppies for adults either. Especially those with compromised immune systems or damaged lungs.
But the sociopaths in charge (the rich and their pet politicians) have demonstrated over and over again that they don’t give a fuck about the vulnerable and sick over whom they rule. If it’s going to shave one tenth of a penny off the profits of the manufacturers and power producers who are filling the air with their poisons, then they’re not going to do anything to stop it because profits are sacred and human beings are expendable.
So the health experts are reduced to pleading with them to “please remember the children.” Which will probably work just as well as begging them to think about the sick and old, because, hey, they’re sociopaths.
I think I’ll go read about the American election now to cheer myself up.
