[HN Gopher] Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2
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Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2
Author : martincmartin
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-05-30 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| SllX wrote:
| > The who therefore played down the risks of aerosols, issuing
| guidance via its Twitter and Facebook pages at the end of March
| 2020 that the general public need not worry. "FACT: #COVID19 is
| NOT airborne," it said, adding that any claims to the contrary
| were "misinformation".
|
| Not quite the money quote, but on reading this I wanted to point
| out one little thing.
|
| This is also a form of authoritarianism, not the splashy kind
| that has you making land wars in Asia or creating command
| economies and seizing private property; but the bureaucratic "we
| know better than you because we said so" kind. When authority is
| invested in you, as it has been invested in the WHO, and you
| abuse that authority to tell independent investigators not on
| your payroll that they are just flat out wrong and the lines of
| inquiry they are investigating are dead ends and they should just
| shut up already, well, maybe you shouldn't have the authority you
| were vested with.
|
| Fortunately, we also live in a world where the UN and its
| agencies do not have a monopoly on good information.
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.is/e4057
| leptoniscool wrote:
| thank you for this!
| Natsu wrote:
| I've been reading stuff like this for some time now, I actually
| had our ventilation redone, albeit for non-Covid reasons because
| we had too much dust due to leaky vents causing asthma issues and
| it makes things a lot better even without worrying about Covid.
|
| I never could find any easy/good way to add UV to the mix without
| having to redo everything again, though. I wonder if anyone knows
| any easy/simple add-ons like the one we got to add a bidet to the
| toilet to deal with the TP shortages.
| laurent92 wrote:
| I've bought the Coway AP-1512AH which filters air, and is
| extremely silent, and I have a separate CO2-PM10-PM2.5
| measurer. It does wonders against asthma. PMs go from
| 25microgram/m3 to 1 in half an hour, which I trust because the
| measurement tool is separate. I never succeeded to have less
| than 10 before the Coway.
|
| Before that, I would sneeze first thing in the morning, then
| sneeze by rows of 10 times in Spring, 30 times a day, nose
| bleeding from too much sneezing. I would also have an irritated
| bronchitis which gave me slight asthma (but enough to make me
| abandon intensive sports). Now I still have risk of asthma, but
| at least when I want relief, I close the windows, switch on the
| Coway, and breathe fresh air. I live in a city center of
| average density.
|
| However, CO2 fills up quickly. I wish I could find some
| portable air exchanger: Taking air from outside, exchanging
| temperature, and filtering. I've lodged a bit for a house which
| has that, I'm hoping I'm selected.
| akkawwakka wrote:
| Easy to scoff at an obvious headline, but SARS-CoV-2 may very
| well be endemic now. Going forward pandemic preparedness will no
| longer be reserved for the Fortune 5s or 50s.
|
| New construction for a while at least will hopefully consider
| biosecurity and pandemic preparedness as concrete a threat as
| natural disasters.
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