You're misquoting me. I never said they were extremely fortunate for choosing one model over the other, I said they were extremely fortunate for "being able to choose form over function." When wildfire season rolls around and air becomes very hazardous where I lived, local air purifiers of all kinds were completely sold out, and the box fan solution is all a lot of us had[0]. It's not just inexpensive, it's about availability of materials.
>just to try to dunk on someone
You're attributing negative intentions to my posts, which isn't appreciated.
Are you talking about emergencies, or are you talking about "the low-income perspective"?
Because you said you were doing the latter, and I was criticizing your words using that context. In that context, your words come across as judgemental.
If you're actually talking about the former, then you chose your words pretty poorly.
The low-income people are often the most impacted when an emergency hits. I'm sure if someone had $1000 for an air purifier, they could get one the next day, in most circumstances. Though I'm not low income (now), I got a reminder of it when local materials were totally gone and I would have had to pay through the nose to keep my place breathable. It was bad. The hallways in our apartment building had a haze of smoke 24/7. Fortunately the city let everyone know about the box fan solution, so that's what we did.
For me, being unprepared in a new city, and for low income people who aren't prepared, choosing form over function was a luxury.
You're misquoting me. I never said they were extremely fortunate for choosing one model over the other, I said they were extremely fortunate for "being able to choose form over function." When wildfire season rolls around and air becomes very hazardous where I lived, local air purifiers of all kinds were completely sold out, and the box fan solution is all a lot of us had[0]. It's not just inexpensive, it's about availability of materials.
>just to try to dunk on someone
You're attributing negative intentions to my posts, which isn't appreciated.
0. https://twitter.com/seattlefire/status/1425260701568970752
Are you talking about emergencies, or are you talking about "the low-income perspective"?
Because you said you were doing the latter, and I was criticizing your words using that context. In that context, your words come across as judgemental.
If you're actually talking about the former, then you chose your words pretty poorly.
The low-income people are often the most impacted when an emergency hits. I'm sure if someone had $1000 for an air purifier, they could get one the next day, in most circumstances. Though I'm not low income (now), I got a reminder of it when local materials were totally gone and I would have had to pay through the nose to keep my place breathable. It was bad. The hallways in our apartment building had a haze of smoke 24/7. Fortunately the city let everyone know about the box fan solution, so that's what we did.
For me, being unprepared in a new city, and for low income people who aren't prepared, choosing form over function was a luxury.
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