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But telling people to do something that's not known to reduce risk distracts people from doing the things that help the most. Instead of a store spending thousa

But telling people to do something that's not known to reduce risk distracts people from doing the things that help the most. Instead of a store spending thousands of dollars on cleaning supplies and labor to disinfect floors and shelves 3 times a day, they could spend that money improving ventilation.

dingaling 6y ago
"Improving ventilation" isn't something you just order from the hardware website. You can't just fit a fan to a window to extract air and call it job done job done without studying how that changes internal airflows. Does it address dead zones? Does it actually make matters worse by creating hot zones which coincide with areas where people concentrate? Does the exhaled air create risks to workers outside? It requires a lot of study, planning and execution and lots more money than some cleaning supplies.
- sigstoat 6y ago
  > lots more money than some cleaning supplies lots more money than 12+ months of cleaning supplies, labor, delayed purchases, and increased transmission risk amongst your staff and customers? i suspect it is close enough that we can't hand wave it away as you want to do. in some facilities it may have been nearly free, with some reprogramming done to the existing HVAC system, to run the fans more, or more frequently pull in outside air. > Does the exhaled air create risks to workers outside? this is just FUD.