I’ve got this little theory banging around in my head, and it seems to me that the Western powers that be are trying to take down the middle-class. Every chance they get to take some of them down a notch or ten, they’re going to do it.
How else do you explain things like this? They could tell in a matter of hours if the air was clean or not. They didn’t care to check it out.
Snap of the fingers, tens of thousands of people were cut off and under a severe financial strain (in some instances).
This is no different than the volcano Iceland had in the early ‘70’s. No flights were affected then and none should have been now.