We check the weather forecast, although we do not intend to go out. We play the tourist, for instance. We picture ourselves going for a walk today, doing anything other than grocery shopping and work. We imagine ourselves swimming in Jiyyeh before the next storm hits, taking a trip to the National Museum of Beirut to visit its recently inaugurated pavilion, or having lunch in downtown Beirut.But the real-time outdoor “air quality is poor,” the smartphone said. It’s been more than a month that air quality in Beirut has ranged between poor and very poor. Air quality is one of the lesser worries, what with the bombs raining down on the city, their hollow sound, like thunder, bringing the feeling of a grim winter to a summer still sunny and warm, and the dust, tears and bloodshed the war has caused. It’s a good thing the drones don’t run on...
We check the weather forecast, although we do not intend to go out. We play the tourist, for instance. We picture ourselves going for a walk today, doing anything other than grocery shopping and work. We imagine ourselves swimming in Jiyyeh before the next storm hits, taking a trip to the National Museum of Beirut to visit its recently inaugurated pavilion, or having lunch in downtown Beirut.But the real-time outdoor “air quality is poor,” the smartphone said. It’s been more than a month that air quality in Beirut has ranged between poor and very poor. Air quality is one of the lesser worries, what with the bombs raining down on the city, their hollow sound, like thunder, bringing the feeling of a grim winter to a summer still sunny and warm, and the dust, tears and bloodshed the war has caused. It’s a good thing the drones...
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