In all our reading on the subject of Yellowstone it would help to know more about SILICOSIS! Breathing Ash or living in certain parts of the S.W. United States where the Dust & Sand Blows will give you a new appreciation of what we will be dealing with if this thing Blows its Lid off! Silicon Poisoning by ash fall is nothing to sneeze at or give the soft sell about. By the way how are you fixed up on Standard Coffee filters or Dust Masks. Coffee Filters are much cheaper than mfg'd dust masks!
Coffee Filters are much cheaper than mfg'd dust masks! And with just a pinch of "8 O'Clock", they smell better, too!
If this thing blows, it might not be the end of humanity, but the experiment in Constitutional Republicanism will be dead, and the world will plunge into another dark age, figliterally.