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This is a pretty bad premise. If you're packing people in cubicles in a building/floor that most likely uses central air and air conditioning, you already lost
by dvt 6y ago
This is a pretty bad premise. If you're packing people in cubicles in a building/floor that most likely uses central air and air conditioning, you already lost the game -- sphere packing or not.
- alistairSH 6y agoI had the same thought. The math is interesting, but I hate the premise. Packing spheres might help prevent some transmission, but based on other reports, HVAC flow is a contributor. You can have everybody sitting 10' apart, but if the air moves consistently in one direction, anybody stuck downwind of a typhoid mary runs a high risk of infection.
- Enginerrrd 6y agoTo a point yeah, but total ventilation rates in the form of room air-exchanges per hour probably matters more.
- cmsonger 6y ago+1 came here to say this. Indoor HVAC air flows seem way more important than distance. I can probably sit right next to you as long as the airflow has each of our exhalations taken away from the other. My employer has mentioned potential plans to bring people back to the office in small numbers for short times. Until these discussions include analysis of building HVAC, I want no part of it.
- darkarmani 6y agoWe all need downdraft hoods. Eating out with friends will be like going to hibachi, but instead of a grill between your friends, it will be a downdraft vent pulling all of your exhalations away.
- gigama 6y ago+1 People are not mathematical spheres.
- dr_zoidberg 6y agoReminded me of the old joke: "here's the solution, but it only works for spherical cows in a vacuum".
- behnamoh 6y agoThis. HVAC systems basically neutralize all these efforts in office buildings.