[HN Gopher] Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 ___________________________________________________________________ Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 Author : martincmartin Score : 15 points Date : 2021-05-30 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.economist.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.economist.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-30 23:01 UTC)