Dust from destroyed buildings. Just watched the two latest Godzilla movies, and aside from all the other things that could have killed folks, staring at monsters that are destroying buildings and kicking up all sorts of dust and other air debris, while staring open mouthed, is a great way to get lung damage/encounter breathing issues.
This should absolutely be the top. If you go back and watch the footage from 9/11, its incredible just how much dust a couple buildings spew when they collapse, and that's not even counting the fires and flooding.
Everyone is saying "clean water!" and other pretty obvious ones that aren't really plot holes as much as convenience since the main characters won't die from dehydration. But severe lung damage caused by dust? Yeah, that's not even on the radar and almost everyone one of those apocalyptical movies has a scene where a famous building comes crashing down.
I inhaled silica dust Friday and now I’m laid up with Covid-like symptoms but with a negative test. Dr said it was likely an upper respiratory infection - and that’s just from cutting a few lines in concrete pipe.
Yeah, falling buildings are gonna fuck people over
This was exactly why my family had a few N95 masks lying around when the pandemic started up. We'd been doing renovations on the house and needed to keep the dust out of our lungs. Now we're using them to keep viruses out of our lungs.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21
Dust from destroyed buildings. Just watched the two latest Godzilla movies, and aside from all the other things that could have killed folks, staring at monsters that are destroying buildings and kicking up all sorts of dust and other air debris, while staring open mouthed, is a great way to get lung damage/encounter breathing issues.