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The plastic barriers that have become so common are an egregious example of this. They hurt air circulation and don't prevent transmission, but they're cheap an
by hardwaregeek 5y ago
The plastic barriers that have become so common are an egregious example of this. They hurt air circulation and don't prevent transmission, but they're cheap and appear to do something. I've wondered why restaurants haven't started using some sort of fan attached to a high quality air filter, basically a cheap air purifier. And for more intensive usecases, why not have chambers that are sealed off and have a powered filter as the intake? I'm not the expert here so there's probably a good reason why, but it was a little weird seeing everybody focus on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic instead of filtration.
- jmspring 5y agoDidn’t read the article? But in the US inside there aren’t plastic barriers. There will be no updating of hvac systems. I’m pro mask indoors, but favor places that are pro vaccine card. WA and OR were more appropriate to this than CA. You will not, outside super heavy government subsidy, get better interior filtration in the US. I say this as a business owner who could probably persuade the building owner to offset part of the charge, but the cost doesn’t make sense.