“Firstly, cleaning indoor air mitigates all airborne diseases at the same time without requiring changes to individual behaviour. Several diseases that cause us repeated suffering and fill our hospitals are airborne, including COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and tuberculosis.”
Ongoing breathing problems continue after COVID | inquirer.com
"I have seen an uptick in cases of diaphragm paralysis since the COVID pandemic and worldwide studies have shown patients who had COVID may experience long-term diaphragm weakness"
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@auscovid19 It just completely baffles me that doctors who are seeing this and connecting the dots to #Covid aren't screaming for #cleanair, #masking, #airfiltration, etc to avoid as many infections and reinfections as possible ... just wow 😭 😭 😭
Old people dieing in a aerosol transmitted pandemic when the #Albanese government has made no #CleanAir regulations to protect them.
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Get yourselve some #AirFiltration engineer advisors #Albo - your current lot of #RCDBTDevotees are running up the death toll.
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How many more you want on your watch?
I love the covid-aware community, but goddamn if I am not bored to tears from hearing about how few people y'all saw wearing masks at the grocery store.
It's been this way for years now. We know! We get it!
@pixplz@Njord That's true. Yes. Nobody is being convinced. Nothing is improving at all.
I'm just very disillusioned. We had mandatory masks for a while here, with theoretically even impressive fees, and I remember very well how that went. Also I know that 100% of political parties in parliament, plus all the bodies responsible for e.g. medical care and hospitals here want to ignore Covid. It's not about campaigning to give more weight to one group as opposed to the other when there's no group. Nobody wants to get involved with anything. There's individual doctor's offices that mask, but they don't even want to advertise that.
I'd love to do more for clean air. I started with our school and kindergarten. Originally I had the naive idea of getting the other parents who care together. Turns out, there aren't any. It's a collective action of one. It's me. (Occasionally there's a grandparent with a mask picking up a kid, but they don't want anything to do with anything else.)
I wear a mask, yes, but not as a statement, that's just a side effect. I talk to the teachers about the air in the classroom. They open windows. I check if the windows are open in the morning. I tell everybody how important clean air is. Because of cultural reasons there's a widespread belief that cold air and drafts cause disease (you catch a "cold"), so people do not want open windows in classrooms. Air cleaning machines are very suspicious and dangerous (the filters will spread disease!), whereas getting a bit sick all the time is no problem at all. So right now my campaign is stuck at the educational stage, telling everybody who listens how much I enjoy not being sick and how great clean air would be. Comparing it to water. Explaining air filters. I'm tired of it. It's not helping.
Stronger climate policies have a larger part of the population and even of the political establishment behind them. Not enough, not by far, but climate change is coming while Covid is over, haven't you heard.
Btw, I strongly believe that we have to do both, individual small actions and the large collective revolution. Don't stop biking because fossil fuels are still subsidised. Keep meeting outside, wearing masks, opening windows, and explaining airborne pathogens, even in the face of ignorance and political evil.
Thanks for bringing it up. It's not nice but we need to talk about it.
Apart from anything else, it's not like the mitigations are difficult to do or in any way intrusive after they're done
And they're beneficial for far more than "just" Covid
I really don't see why anyone would object, other than plain fuckwittery
A fun bit about public fund mismanagement without internal misconduct.
The cost of adding adequate #AirFiltration / #AirPurification to a school is generally (by far) inferior to the total cost hospitalizations & chronic illness from not doing it will induce.
The public is left with the bill in both cases.
So on a systemic level, not investing in air purification in schools is very literally wasting public funds by choosing the least efficient & highest suffering path.
When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in #COVID19 wards, they found that it removed almost all traces of airborne SARS-CoV-2.
If you are not masking or taking Covid seriously, then you are no different than fascists. Yeah, that probably is upsetting to hear, but I tried being nice and kind, but y'all STILL FUCKING REFUSE TO MASK.
Goddamnit. Give a shit about people's lives, PLEASE.
Stop acting like covid disappeared the moment Biden gave some shitty speech about ending the pandemic emergency. It didn't. That's not how viruses work.
If you are not making Covid precautions part of your activism, organizing, and future building? Then you are leaving millions to death and disablement and are engaging in eugenics. Just like the fucking fascists.
So yeah, this is why I've lost a hell of a lot of trust in Leftists lately.
Y'all ought to have known better. But you ate up eugenics hogwash from the government and pseudo-science-health-hogwash, and are killing folks with your complacency.
Stop it.
Start giving a shit if you really want to build a better world. That means making pandemic mitigations PERMANENT.