Ask HN: What happened to HVAC and open-air discussions for Covid?
Many months back there were mainstream discussions about HVAC solutions for Covid-19, such as purifying and sanitizing indoor air, or simply getting a lot of air flow through regions to reduce Covid risk. This was probably around fall in preparation for being indoors for the winter, but has anything happened since?
Has there been any significant progress for making indoor spaces safer by treating air? While spring and summer will alleviate some of the risk by having people outdoors more, there are still places like gyms, grocery stores, etc. that are indoors. I'm fully vaccinated, but the particular idea of going back to my weightlifting gym seems slightly risky to me, mostly from the thought of being indoors where people are heavily breathing (I'm not concerned about touching equipment... that can be sanitized and I can wash my hands).
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 11.6 ms ] threadI'm just glad that they were able to stop forcibly ventilating people. They never admitted a mistake, there; but they killed some people in a particularly nightmarish way with those.
This is in a community that controlled community spread and proved it with testing and contact tracing so I was confident that very few people would go to the gym with the virus and the physical barriers and distance and now the vaccine are a reason not to fear.