It’s not your imagination. Allergy season gets worse every year

I've suspected this myself, as I've never had allergies until 5~ years ago, now 3/4 of the year my eyes make gunk that bounces between chicken-protein consistency and green razor shards of glass made from reconstituted captain crunch.

The past few years I've actually speculated with friends that, perhaps it is from the dying bees causing an increase in available pollen.

What is insane to me here is, the photos in the article of the pollen clouds in North Carolina. That's crazy. I know it's bad because I come out to my silver car most mornings and evenings and it'll be a yellowish-green, with pollen thick enough you can actually write in it on the hood, but wow.

I wonder what effect this is having/will have on:

- Engines and other machinery

- Interfering with pollination by overloading a given species with pollen from incompatible species

- Medical costs, mostly from serious respiratory issues

- Accidents, I had a moment last year where out of nowhere my eyes just started screaming at me and it was extremely painful to keep my eyes open as tears began to freely flow to try and clear them, I had to pull into the first car park and sit there for several minutes in quite a bit of pain from my eyes just giving up on the pollen and as I type this I just got a good deal of discharge out of my tear ducts and am about to take an allergy pill and pump some allergy nasal spray in each nostril, inside with a HEPA-filter purifier going full blast at 6:43 am

- Qualify of life for outdoor animals

- HVAC systems, if the pollen is getting in I imagine some is larger than most filters, as it gets into the ducts does it become a viable food source for current/future mold spores?