From Lambeth Palace. Archbishop Justin Welby preached at Canterbury Cathedral during a service of 'thanksgiving and repentance' for the first black Anglican Bishop, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was consecrated 150 years ago.
Children, senior citizens, and people with heart and lung conditions are especially vulnerable, but smog can impact even those of us in good health. Symptoms during high air pollution days range from eye and nose irritation that can amplify allergy and respiratory infection, to increased cardiac and respiratory deaths.
I have Sjogren's, which causes dry eyes. Mine aren't too bad. Sometimes I have trouble fixing my focus when I look from near to far, or just focusing, period. When they're really bad, it feels like there is sand in them. Mostly, they just get tired. I find myself closing them all the time.