a way forward through coronavirus
2022-Jan-28, Friday 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI've avoided posting the results of my adventure into study results about coronavirus infection. They're just too depressing for what they mean in the long term for humans (and I have no clue about deer, cats, or bats), and I'm trying to be slightly more upbeat. :/ This Twitter thread, though, offers a reasonable plan for moving forward. The key point made by the dermatologist (not epidemiology, sure, but still a very insightful and well-phrased suggestion) is this:
I wrote to one of my supervisors many months ago during a questionnaire about how we felt about return-to-work, replying that I expected someday offices would have ventilation standards that included cubicles with air flow guides the same way they now have electrical guides. There should be an intake down below the desk near foot level. The outflow should probably have a direction-and-flow control like the nozzles in airplane cabins. Each row of cubicles should connect those common pipes to two separate outlets on the wall for air circulation. One connection to provide "fresh" filtered air, and one connection for returning "dirty" air. This is probably in addition to the current ceiling tile practice.
This YouTube video does a great job of explaining why cities already had to undergo one giant infrastructure renovation to improve water/sewage conditions. We'll have to do another redesign to include air management this time. Note: This current pandemic is not following the old disease guidelines presented within the video, so keep that exception in mind thoughout. Covid is not like the flu.
If humans are intent on maintaining social spaces indoors (and it certainly seems like y'all are (I could live without it)), then this massive infrastructure redesign and cultural rethinking is exactly what we need going forward. Judging from what I'm seeing in reports, there will not be a day when we can stop worrying about community transmission of sars-cov-2. It still appears to me to be a lifelong problem. Don't get covid. Not the 1st time, and not the 2nd, 3rd, or additional times, assuming they're not all just resurgences of the same initial infection.
Ways to be smarter about this and restructure around an airborne pathogen starts with *clean air*. Cholera went away with clean water. We need to make the air in all our buildings as clean and safe as possible. Everywhere — schools, restaurants, work, apartment buildings etc.
- twitter, Dr. Lisa Iannattone, 2022 Jan 27
- twitter, Dr. Lisa Iannattone, 2022 Jan 27
I wrote to one of my supervisors many months ago during a questionnaire about how we felt about return-to-work, replying that I expected someday offices would have ventilation standards that included cubicles with air flow guides the same way they now have electrical guides. There should be an intake down below the desk near foot level. The outflow should probably have a direction-and-flow control like the nozzles in airplane cabins. Each row of cubicles should connect those common pipes to two separate outlets on the wall for air circulation. One connection to provide "fresh" filtered air, and one connection for returning "dirty" air. This is probably in addition to the current ceiling tile practice.
This YouTube video does a great job of explaining why cities already had to undergo one giant infrastructure renovation to improve water/sewage conditions. We'll have to do another redesign to include air management this time. Note: This current pandemic is not following the old disease guidelines presented within the video, so keep that exception in mind thoughout. Covid is not like the flu.
If humans are intent on maintaining social spaces indoors (and it certainly seems like y'all are (I could live without it)), then this massive infrastructure redesign and cultural rethinking is exactly what we need going forward. Judging from what I'm seeing in reports, there will not be a day when we can stop worrying about community transmission of sars-cov-2. It still appears to me to be a lifelong problem. Don't get covid. Not the 1st time, and not the 2nd, 3rd, or additional times, assuming they're not all just resurgences of the same initial infection.