> What's even better than [effective drugs and vaccines] are public health measures that are taken even more broadly and don't require individual actions. In th

> What's even better than [effective drugs and vaccines] are public health measures that are taken even more broadly and don't require individual actions. In the industrialized world, we took many of these a long time ago, things like providing clean water without pathogens floating around in it. It comes as a shock to us when that layer of defense breaks down, because we're so used to it that we take it as part of the natural order of things. If disinfection with 222nm light or a similar safety measure becomes so commonplace that we take for granted, that would be a remarkable shift and a small silver lining to the COVID pandemic.