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Bangkok AQI is 90.... What am I missing?
Thai authorities urged Bangkok residents to work from home and wear respirator masks outdoors as air pollution level worsens in one of the world’s most-visited cities. 
Residents in the city of more than 10 million should work from home if possible, or switch from personal vehicles to public transport options if they need to commute, Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said in a statement on Tuesday. Authorities will seek to control activities causing dust particles such as outdoor burning, construction and combustion from truck engines, he said.
Air quality in the Thai capital has been mostly at unhealthy levels since the weekend with authorities warning that the hazardous dust particles, known as PM 2.5, may exceed safe levels again later this week. While the city’s air quality was moderate on Wednesday morning, it’s set to slide to unhealthy levels from Thursday, according to AirVisual.  
Bangkok and other Thai cities have grappled with poor air quality in recent years, with pollution tending to get worse in the dry season around December to February. >

I was there a few weeks ago. I sneezed endlessly and had to wear a mask indoors. It was really annoying. >

In Korea, sometimes our air quality goes to over 1,000 AQI. We definitely don't have it as bad as India but just this month we had the government telling us to stay indoors and all of these alerts were issued because the air was so dangerous. The government here has been telling people to wear masks long before the pandemic hit. Our air can kill. Thanks to K-Pollution I can safely open my windows to try to air out our home every.....few weeks if I'm lucky? And even then I have to monitor the AQI constantly while they're open because it shoots up to dangerous levels so fast!!!
Fossil fuel needs to stop. We are killing the planet and ourselves. >

But isn’t this particular form of air pollution more  small particle dust than anything else? >

I've been in asia for years, it's the same everywhere here. They all use cheap and dirty coal (my city even burns PLASTIC now along with it to add to the stupidity and cancer count) and then are shocked at the inevitable consequences that the air gets so thick you can't see the building next to you or go outside without an asthma attack. I have various sites that measure the pm 2.5, pm 10, ozone, CO2, etc. all saved as my homepages and have to check them if I want to go outside. Opening windows for fresh air is usually not an option here. They'll tell you not to because it's so dangerous. Government puts out alerts so often. They often advise not to go outside. We have LED street signs everywhere that constantly read the current AQI and advisories because it's always changing and such a danger. NOPE. Nothing natural about this. Just human stupidity. Getting energy the cheapest, easiest, dirtiest way possible, planet they're destroying and lives they're killing with it be damned. No matter the cost. Knowing it's literally killing people and destroying the planet and ignoring it. This is why we are in a Climate Crisis. This is why there is no hope, people don't care about the consequences of their actions, just doing what's easy and wrong. >

Plus they have the additional issue of all the black smoke plumes of pm constantly being belched out from all of their diesel fueled boats. More carbon=more air pollution=worsening Climate Crisis. 
Right now, their AQI is in the red at 172 (in Korea we can get a lot higher, I have screenshots of it well over 1,000 — 0-50 is safe). Their pm 10 is at 83 and pm 2.5 is at 6.4x WHO safety limits at an inexcusable 96. Last week, in Korea we were at 7x higher than WHO safety limits. People are dying. The planet is dying. No one cares enough to do anything. That's life here. >

Currently in Bangkok, it’s pretty bad. >

It's a good thing global climate change is a myth >

Ha. Climate change. Duh, the weather changes every day! /s >

Well maybe build some more public transport, make people actually stop at Red light and pedestrian crosswalks then more people might actually use a bycicle or walk instead of calling a bike cab for 500 meters. >

The worst mileage a car gets is idling (burning fossils fuels and not even moving) then it is starting from a stop. So while inconveniencing people might encourage people to not drive it also would add pollution >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)


Thai authorities urged Bangkok residents to work from home and wear respirator masks outdoors as air pollution level worsens in one of the world's most-visited cities.
Residents in the city of more than 10 million should work from home if possible, or switch from personal vehicles to public transport options if they need to commute, Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said in a statement on Tuesday.
Some cities in Thailand's northern region and those near Bangkok are battling unhealthy air quality on Wednesday morning, official data showed.


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Work from home is literally a panacea that we will let egotistical middle-managers blow for the rest of us.