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A Quarter of Americans Spend All Day Inside, Survey Finds (washingtontimes.com)
Zorro shares a report from The Washington Times: A quarter of Americans spend almost an entire 24 hours without going outside and downplay the negative health effects of only breathing indoor air, according to a new survey claiming a new "indoor generation." It's unclear how dangerous indoor air is in the modern era -- reports by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluating indoor air quality are from 1987 and 1989, which found that it is two to five times more polluted than outside.
The "Indoor Generation Report" surveyed 16,000 people from 14 countries in Europe and North America about their knowledge and perceptions of indoor vs outdoor air quality and the amount of time spent inside. Of the results for Americans, a quarter said they spend between 21 and 24 hours inside; 20 percent said they spend 19 to 20 hours a day inside and 21 percent say they spend between 15 and 18 hours inside. Thirty-four percent said they spend between zero and 14 hours inside. Great Britain and Canada had similar results to the U.S., with 23 and 26 percent of its respondents saying they spend between 21 and 24 hours inside. The countries with the highest percentage of people who spend the lowest amount of time inside were Italy (57 percent), the Czech Republic (57 percent) and the Netherlands (51 percent). This group said they only spend between zero and 14 hours indoors.
The "Indoor Generation Report" surveyed 16,000 people from 14 countries in Europe and North America about their knowledge and perceptions of indoor vs outdoor air quality and the amount of time spent inside. Of the results for Americans, a quarter said they spend between 21 and 24 hours inside; 20 percent said they spend 19 to 20 hours a day inside and 21 percent say they spend between 15 and 18 hours inside. Thirty-four percent said they spend between zero and 14 hours inside. Great Britain and Canada had similar results to the U.S., with 23 and 26 percent of its respondents saying they spend between 21 and 24 hours inside. The countries with the highest percentage of people who spend the lowest amount of time inside were Italy (57 percent), the Czech Republic (57 percent) and the Netherlands (51 percent). This group said they only spend between zero and 14 hours indoors.
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As opposed to outdoor air? With all of the pollutants and allergens? Indoor air generally has filters and purifiers. Don't get me wrong, I love outdoor air too. It just seems silly to claim that indoor air is more dangerous than outdoor air.
get that number up to three quarters and i'll consider going outside XD
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Just think, without those Americans staying indoors all day, Slashdot would have jumped the shark and wound up doing stupid shit like posting "Russia! Russia! Russia!" clickbait crap.
Oh wait....
If you change the filters and keep up on maintenance, as well as bring in an air purifier or two, you can make the air in your home better then outdoor air. Outdoors has lots of pollen and other things floating around in the air that ranges from mildly irritating to downright toxic. Be like a low pollen day would be easy on an allergenic person while a day in some of China's smog filled cities would be very bad.
Still, getting outside is still nice and a little bit of sun is suppose to be good for us.
I spent probably 23 hours inside. Between work, my car, and home - i'm inside most of the time.
I've heard there's this thing called teh sun that emits radiation. I don't want skin cancer.
Also, i'm in Los Angeles, where our motto is, "never trust air you can't see."
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Well if you add together work and sleep that is about 16 hours a day. Throw in a 40 minutes driving (to and from work put together) which while you can have the windows down, is more like inside than outside in most cars. Then add 1.5 hours for eating a cooking and you are only left with 5.5 hours, or 22.9% of your day. How many of those do you spending watching TV or reading a book in a comfy chair? While I probably spend most of those 8 hours and 40 minutes I would be working and commuting during the week which I have off on the weekend outside and when the weather is nice we sometimes we cook and eat outside. I am sad to report I too spend most of my time inside during the week. I do try to make up for in on weekends though.
And they live in big cities, haven't a clue about life and yet feel that they're demands on people and their belief systems should become thrown out for their concrete moronic lifestyle.
I live in Los Angeles and used to leave my windows open all the time until I noticed the thick layer of oily black "dust" that had covered everything. Now I only keep my bedroom window open with a furnace filter and a fan. There's also standalone air filters in my bedroom and at work. If you live someplace with less gross air, yeah, you should go outside more. Cities are a different story though.
Outdoor air is great, if you mean really, really outdoor air, away from where people are. Outdoor as in the Great Outdoors.
But outdoor air anywhere that people congregate if full of the contrails of filthy fucking ash-holes spewing their drugs into the air that other people have to breath.
Give me clean filtered indoor air over the air around any sidewalk or plaza or roadway or parking lot any day.
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I'm not surprised that the figure is low for Canada and the UK. When it is -40C or pouring with rain most people will not want to go outside and I'm not sure it really is any healthier for them to do so. They should correlate these results with the local climate.
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I mean when I go to work, it's dark, when I come out to go home, it's dark. Add another 8 hours of sleep and 2 hours a day commuting, there are 4 free hours for "outside" during a typical week.
I counted.
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I've got about 45 seconds a day outdoors walking to my car for work and back. That'll get the job done.
It's Washington Times. Infect your brain with this fluff at your peril. Zero hours indoors indeed.
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If I head out there, I might meet someone else. I simply can't take that risk
I get plenty of outdoor air breathing in all those wonderful car exhaust fumes on the way home from work.
I spent probably 23 hours inside. Between work, my car, and home - i'm inside most of the time.
I've heard there's this thing called teh sun that emits radiation. I don't want skin cancer.
I've heard there's this thing called uranium that emits radiation which transforms it into this thing called radon that emits more radiation. In many homes this stuff can build up and you don't want to breathe in too much of it and get lung cancer either...
Also, i'm in Los Angeles, where our motto is, "never trust air you can't see."
If I'm not mistaken, the Alabama was an Ohio-class submarine, not Los Angeles ;^)
How would one take naked airbaths like Benjamin Franklin AND squish ones toes like Nicola Tesla, all in the noble pursuit of becoming a genius, when one is outside where fellow citizens can see what one is doing AND vital equipment that has no business being paraded around outdoors? So the case FOR staying indoor at all times, always, and never going outside ever is rock-solid. It is the only surefire way to become a true genius. I believe the Japanese call staying indoors constantly "Cocooning". THAT is why the Japanese are so smart! (Takes his PS4 and puts it in the microwave)
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the Alabama was an Ohio-class submarine
One hundred fifty men went down and seventy-five couples came up?
is spent in traffic, breathing that oh so healthy air found in the middle of your typical freeway converted to a parking lot.
Modded down, no doubt by someone who sucked a dick or two on a sub. Own it, man; no need to be ashamed.
If you weren't aware, (I wasn't) The Washington Times is a newspaper whole owned by the Unification Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
The weird questioning of "indoor air" and utter lack of science should be a tip off that something isn't right.
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How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
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Outside sucks.
4 hours is a LOT of time to spend outside if your primary tasks in life aren't outside. 24 hrs ... -8 for sleep ... -8 for work ... now we are at 8. minus an hour or so for commute both ways. minus an hour for dinner, and one for lunch ... WTF there are not 4 hours left. If I don't WORK or EAT outside, then I have no chance. Study seems stupid.
Also, i'm in Los Angeles, where our motto is, "never trust air you can see."
FTFY.
45 seconds most days as I check the mailbox.
On sunny days, I'll put my arms in the sun for 15 minutes to get some vitamin D. Makes me feel better.
From mid-May until Mid-Sept, there are air quality alerts here most afternoons/evenings, where the govt warns against going outside.
But 1-2 times a week, I'll get to a grocery store and to a "meeting."
That's about 5 hrs out of the house.
No basement, but we've had a few snow events that shutdown the entire region here. Usually, I learn about these when family calls the next day to ask how I am. Almost always, I didn't know it had even snowed.
If they really wanted to make a point they should have come and done a count here in Phoenix in the summer.
it's not the air. It's the complete lack of physical activity. That's the problem.
With agencies like the EPA being gutted by Republican policies and not fixed by the Democrats, those numbers are woefully optimistic. But the real danger is lead in the water: Americans will drink themselves to an idiocracy; it is inevitable, the rest of world need only wait.
If you live in Minnesota, you typically will stay inside. I have been there, by October they have ice on their lakes 2 feet thick. Only place I have ever been that got so cold I watched Anti-Freeze freeze and it you can throw a glass of hot in the air and it is ice before it lands. And then during the Summer it is a giant mosquito orgy due to all the lakes. Most don't go outside unless they are hunting or working. They even have houses they pull onto the lakes to fish. They will be indoors most of the time.
Then I live in North Carolina, I typically spend probably 22 hours a day either inside a house or car. Our weather is friggin schizophrenic where it can be 40F one day and 2 days later be 85F. And the humidity has you feel the cold to the bone and the heat makes you hot and sticky and just plain uncomfortable most of the time out here. On the days where it feels alright, I gladly go out some and try and get some sun and exercise limitations I can (Spinal Injury), some days I might spend 6 to 9 hours outside in a pool if I can leaving with sunburn and blisters. But if it is uncomfortable as crap, I am not bothering.
I've heard there's this thing called teh sun that emits radiation. I don't want skin cancer.
Sunlight makes vitamin D, which helps prevent skin cancer (among many other important things).
Here is a handy chart of particulate sizes the EPA has detected in the city air:
http://www.ballistics101.com/h...
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"A Quarter of Americans Spend All Day Inside, Survey Finds"
Is that by weight?
Does that include time sleeping? If not I'm surprised at 57% of Czechs and Dutch spending 0 to 14 hours outside. If it is included then 21 percent of Americans spending between 15 and 18 hours inside sounds pretty high, unless you work outside that's essentially all your non working and non sleeping time.
Back in 2014, my over decade(?) overdue physical test's lab test resulted very low vitamin D. :(
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That could be an explanation for the czech being among the most indoor people :
historically a former eastern bloc country, with some country regions having significant industrial development (coal mining, iron smelting, etc.) but not so much pollution control.
thus people will percieve the outdoor air being more polluted and will develop the habit of staying indoor.
(among tons of other different cultural reasons).
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What is this outside thing that people are talking about - is it an alternative universe and can we actually go there?
If you want a breath of fresh air, open a window and stick your head into a building.
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned. The air in street vehicles must be much worse than inside buildings.
One of my favorite sci-fi futures is where all of humanity lives in archologies and nature is allowed to go rampant outside them. (The idea being that the population remains similar to what it is today, but the people are concentrated geographically.) One of the objections to the idea of archologies is that humanity wouldn't do well cooped up inside all day. It looks like we might be moving that way anyway.
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I'm not a rocket scientist or anything, but...... if you want to get fresh air while indoors... can you not just open a window?
What they are calling "all day inside" was set up to be the conclusion, as it lumps anyone who spends less than 3 hours outside everyday with those that never leave the house.
If you spend an hour outside every weekday, then spend 7 hours outdoors each day every Saturday and Sunday, you are one of the people who spend all day, everyday indoors according to this "survey".
2 1/2 hour walk every day? You're a shut-in, too.
You could play a outdoor full regulation length soccer game and a regulation basketball game outside, including 15 minute halftime breaks for both, every single day and still count as one of the people who spend all day inside.
3 hours a day outside, every day, when it's below freezing isn't exactly universally desirable unless your job requires it. Similarly, 3 hours a day when it's 90 degrees plus and 90% humidity isn't much fun either.
This survey should have been replaced by the questions "Do you work outdoors?" It's bit difficult to spend 10 hours outside per day unless you do.
Could it be because most (decent paying jobs) require using a computer under strict corporate control. Or maybe that those workers are being forced to work 80+ hours per week to be able to afford the basics?
> by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluating indoor air quality are from 1987 and 1989, which found that it is two to five times more polluted than outside.
Well, thanks to that very same EPA, pretty soon indoor air will probably be healthier to breathe than outdoor air.
Thanks, EPA, for solving those worries.
Wow, sunlight makes vitamin D? Where's all the vitamin D in the atmosphere?
Sunlight provides energy which our skin uses to create vitamin D, which helps prevent skin cancer (among many other important things).
FTFY
I have VR now so I continue to spend all day inside, although I think I'm outside for a couple hours.
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I live in Iowa. Most of the time the weather is not such that I want to spend time outside. Of the times when it is such that I would want to spend time outside, odds are that I am:
1. Working
2. Sleeping, or resting after work.
3. Driving somewhere.
4. Lifting weights at the gym.
So, what's the proposal here? Ask my boss to move my desk outside on sunny days? Go sleep under the stars? Take 2 hours to walk somewhere I can drive to in 10 minutes.
If you want to criticize indoor air quality, and people's ignorance of it, fine. But here in the 21st century CE, most people in the 1st and 2nd world have more reasons to be inside than outside, unless their work demands it.
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