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Re:Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down by jagged-chisel on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:04AM (#22655391)
> More pollution == “better”

I'm hoping this is just a temporary indicator giving analysts a hint as to where to focus their attention, and not a lone metric plugged into whatever model they're using.

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Re:Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down by nogabebop23 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:18PM (#22656086)
don't read anything too technical into it, in this case they're just measuring production by the by-product to try and get a leading indicator on actual trade goods. This is macro-level stuff like changes to China's GDP that I would doubt is very actionable
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