Cholera epidemics stopped by drinking cleaner water, not with vaccines or “herd immunity”.
Covid is going to be stopped by breathing cleaner air. twitter.com/MackayIM/statu…
There's already a huge investment going on in replacing HVAC systems for energy reasons, so there's probably good hybrid approaches. I've had several people reach out before/after the pandemic with ideas in this space.
Is there much headroom for innovation in hvac? The mechanical/electrical parts seem kinda done besides some geometry optimization, but non-ghg heat exchanger chemicals seems hard
Cholera pandemics haven’t ended! “The current (seventh) pandemic started in South Asia in 1961, reached Africa in 1971 and the Americas in 1991. Cholera is now endemic in many countries.” (WHO, 2021) https://who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cholera…
There is a fundamental misunderstanding of viral v bacterial epidemiology in that post. Cholera (bacterial) was stopped by cleaner water--smallpox, polio, mumps (viral) were stopped by vaccinations and herd immunity.
People (?) are literally so addicted to AC that they will endure an epidemic and multiple rounds of booster shots than sit outside in the shade.
Unless there's some hitec bullshit "filter out virus, filter in unsmoggy air" (that doesn't even work), it's not cool to discuss?