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Yeah it was super fun to breathe in as well

Human kind is on a rampage to distruct itself and everything around it

Yeah running around trying to find face masks, feeling like the world was coming to an end… glad those things didn’t last!

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We call 'em bushfires here mate

Let's blame the wildfires for it!

That does suck, but I thought the ozone hole wasn’t that big of a deal anymore

Wasn't most of the ozone repaired awhile ago?

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Yeah wasn't there a bunch of news about that in past few years? To the effect of "the ozone layer has been recovering since the start of the pandemic"

I picked up some N-95 masks last month just in case.

I thought the ozone hole was closing! So you're telling me my childhood fears have come back to haunt me?

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It started too after we got rid of CFC’s, I think it’s still on track to restoration by 2050, takes a while though

CFCs, that's what it was. Thank you haha.

I took an EPA test to handle refrigerants.. Cfc's were horrible. 1 molecule of cfc would destroy 100,000 molecules of ozone.

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