Sucks!
When I was here before I noticed the air was bad. In the morning it started out okay and through the day it got worse and worse. Some days I could "feel" the air on my skin.
Well that was then, the end of the rainy season, with rain at the end of every day or in the night.
This is the dry season. The temperatures are much more tolerable for me so that's a relief. However without the daily rains, not a drop since I landed a week ago, the air quality is worse.
My own explanation for this is more dust and dirt is kicked up by traffic because it isn't stuck to the ground from being wet. The really fine particles stay in the air longer because there's no rain coming down to wash them out and back onto the ground. And then there's the traffic which is continuing to make its same contribution, wet season or dry.
We talk about alternate fuels in the US. If reliable reasonably priced electric vehicles could be introduced in Vietnam I have no doubt there'd be health benefits realized in short order.
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