Last week was hell week in Singapore.
For the global folks who are uninformed, Indonesia burned down Sumatra's virgin forests to make way for crop plantation and resulted in drastic air pollution as the haze from the smoke invaded half of South East Asia, with Singapore and West Malaysia most adversely affected.
For those of us in Singapore, it really felt like living in hell, right? We were breathing smoke, our clothes and food smelled like ashes and we were queuing to reincarnate. Well, fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) no, we were queuing to get 3M’s N95 masks that were supposed to help us breathe better in bad air.
But there weren’t enough to go around. We hear stories of how poor aunties queue for an hour at Guardian pharmacy only to find out that the inventory ran out. We then activated our friends overseas to bring masks back from all (Read more...)
...For the global folks who are uninformed, Indonesia burned down Sumatra's virgin forests to make way for crop plantation and resulted in drastic air pollution as the haze from the smoke invaded half of South East Asia, with Singapore and West Malaysia most adversely affected.
For those of us in Singapore, it really felt like living in hell, right? We were breathing smoke, our clothes and food smelled like ashes and we were queuing to reincarnate. Well, fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) no, we were queuing to get 3M’s N95 masks that were supposed to help us breathe better in bad air.
But there weren’t enough to go around. We hear stories of how poor aunties queue for an hour at Guardian pharmacy only to find out that the inventory ran out. We then activated our friends overseas to bring masks back from all (Read more...)
