The new and small air filter from IKEA for 35€ with 95m³/h CADR.
Inexpensive and functional, but unfortunately with a power supply unit for 230V. However, it can be converted to USB-C relatively easily for ~ €10 and thus used with a power bank.
For train travel, the family party or on the #37c3
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.
A chipmunk was storing pine nuts in the cabin air filter of my car!!!! Poor little bastard's winter store house is now in the trashcan at the oil change place! 🐿️🌲
Is there any professional air... person (engineer? physicist? Thermodynamics' enthusiast?) here who could tell me whether they'd be okay to use as general air filters in a DIY project with way less air pressure than a vacuum uses? 🤔