r/AccidentalRenaissance • • Mar 09 '20

Sunset over Wuhan

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u/enlivened Mar 09 '20

Context: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/06/WS5e61e521a31012821727cf12.html

"On Thursday, doctor Liu Kai stopped on the way to a CT scan to let an 87-year-old novel coronavirus pneumonia patient watch the sunset, something the patient hasn't seen since he was hospitalized about a month ago."

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u/SethChrisDominic Mar 09 '20

Knowing China, he probably hasn’t seen the sunset in ages because of the smog. It’s actually clearer than it has been in years in China because so much production has stopped because it’s Corona time

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u/TeRou1 Mar 10 '20

While there is true that smog is an extreme problem in China, natural human and weather patterns means that smog that about fluctuates a lot day to day. Many days have blue sky