I agree with the analysis of the OANN link. I don't go to that source for anything. There have always been a portion of the conservatives who are just too stupid for words...... well some portions of every political faction, let's say.
I agree that masks can be effective, in any design or material, to some extent, and should be worn in all close encounters human to human or in closed spaces with poor HVAC design. But they fail because we fail to properly clean them, replace them, dispose of them in a timely manner. Coming home from a spreader event, and taking them off and putting them on the kitchen table, we go wash our hands and face and sit down to eat. and transfer to load of virus from the table to our face in unthinking comfort. That sort of thing. And then the mandates that require us to stay indoors and not walk alone around the block in the sunshine at all, or use a mask to do so, puts us in a sort of trance of unthinking habit that leads to exposures we could avoid if we were thoughtful about the circumstances.
Still no way to save us from our own stupidity at times.
Speaking of HVAC systems, Mark Levin has been exploding against teachers' unions' demands for HVAC fixes. He apparently thinks it's not an issue. But the worst part of it is the unions' and school managers' misunderstanding of the problem, and the engineers with their delight in replacing equipment that doesn't need to be replaced. To increase air flows or change directions of air flows.I agree with the analysis of the OANN link. I don't go to that source for anything. There have always been a portion of the conservatives who are just too stupid for words...... well some portions of every political faction, let's say.
I agree that masks can be effective, in any design or material, to some extent, and should be worn in all close encounters human to human or in closed spaces with poor HVAC design. But they fail because we fail to properly clean them, replace them, dispose of them in a timely manner. Coming home from a spreader event, and taking them off and putting them on the kitchen table, we go wash our hands and face and sit down to eat. and transfer to load of virus from the table to our face in unthinking comfort. That sort of thing. And then the mandates that require us to stay indoors and not walk alone around the block in the sunshine at all, or use a mask to do so, puts us in a sort of trance of unthinking habit that leads to exposures we could avoid if we were thoughtful about the circumstances.
Still no way to save us from our own stupidity at times.
The human condition will always involve human inconsistency, human weakness, human corruption, human ignorance, human weariness, human bias, human lunacy, human credulity....... well, an infinity of imperfections or deplorable characters.
But it's not just republicans who are human.
The systems need the installation, in-line...... in some segment of the ductworks, electrostatic filters that will destroy the virus as it passes, and remove the particles from the air. And produce a light ozone presence, something like the smell of a thunderstorm. Ozone actually has no threshold biologically, it acts completely and exhaustively on first contact with any biological surface. Like chlorine in the swimming pool, we tolerate low levels per OSHA specifications because we have reserves of unsaturated oils and biological molecules, and will not be killed by a light concentration for several hours a day. We do need to eat well to keep up our nutrition, that's all. But the virus is killed by those low concentrations, absolutely and quantitatively, totally. With that kind of air, the masks are actually not even needed unless we are say kissing someone with the virus.
This kind of installation in the HVAC is a few thousand dollars for even large buildings, compared to hundreds of thousands of dollars to totally redesign and reinstall the systems.
So when it comes to stupid, the teachers and the engineers are far mare stupid than Mark Levin.