What health impacts did last year's wildfire smoke have on Wisconsin? New data tell the story

From JSOnline:

Caitlin Looby, Melba Newsome

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Climate Central

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and science and news group Climate Central. Kaitlyn Weber (Climate Central) contributed data reporting. 

For Dr. Emily Walz and her three boys, summer days are normally spent playing outside and digging for bugs. But that all changed last year when wildfire smoke blanketed Wisconsin.  

As the Waukesha-based psychiatrist saw the mental health of her patients suffer amid suffocating smoke connected to warming temperatures, she kept her kids — now ages 2, 4 and 7 — indoors and wore a mask even for her hourlong drive to work. 

Wisconsin's air last summer was punctuated by alien moonscapes of hazy orange skies, pervasive odors and gasps triggered by tiny smoke particles inside lungs. Days stuck inside were unwelcome reminders of months of isolation during the start of the COVID pandemic, Walz said. 

Read rest of the article here: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2024/08/09/2023-wildfire-smoke-affected-health-in-wisconsin-data-show/74157620007/

Here's why the current generation of youngsters is full of snowflakes and fairies: they are taught to fail.  All of that "wokeness" causes mental health damage.  Keep teaching kids that the world is a terrible place and it becomes one.  Dying your hair blue and adopting affectations is not an appropriate response to the world's problems.