'Absolutely suffocating': how are you affected by smoke from Australia's bushfires? – open thread

From flight delays to wearing masks, those on NSW’s east coast and southern Queensland have endured weeks of haze and hazardous air quality

Weeks of large-scale bushfires on the east coast of New South Wales and southern Queensland have caused air quality to drop to hazardous levels.

In NSW alone, two million hectares of land have been burnt since July in more than 7,000 fires. Six people have died and 673 homes have been destroyed in what authorities have called the “most challenging bushfire season ever”.

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