SO angry the previous administration gutted the #CDC in 2019, but furious that the current administration then just...picked up and kept on as they were.
The people in the government have always had the resources to minimise their exposure. They have air scrubbers and tests. Their world view is not ours. If I had those protections I wouldn’t need to wear a mask everywhere. If people who had symptoms wore masks I wouldn’t have to. Japanese people do this, and have for decades (centuries for all I know). I’ve heard of taxis and stores there having air quality monitors to reassure customers.
These days it's a health disaster afflicting our loved ones in hospitals and care homes. It’s lowering our life expectancy. The poorest workers are still those most exposed.
Ignore the government, listen to medical experts, wear masks, and demand workplaces and schools install air quality monitors so they can see the problem.
Fires and smoke, and gas stoves are also killing us.
@_L1vY_@FerdiMagellan
Yes, we really could set up better ventilation in public spaces. It CAN be done.
A while back I was researching early century architecture - turn of the century up to the first quarter of the 1900s. I was struck by how they went on and on about "good ventilation" and how much they prized "airy" buildings, and talked about how wonderful and sanitary "airy" buildings were. I didn't know why they went on and on about this, back then.
We now know why - and we can do it again.
My grandmother worked in a hospital in the late 20s and early 30s, and she talked this way also about ventilation and how the goal of buildings was to be "airy" and with a breeze. And good ventilation was always the central goal, in order to be healthy. I didn't realize the significance back then.
Again, we now know why.
Because that's the only preventative they had, and the only treatment, and the only way to prevent the spread of illnesses that they had.
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