I'v seen a "UV" switch next to the regular light switch in some private GP's offices in eastern europe. But I did immediatly think of skin cancer when i saw that switch.
Oh yeah, why don't we put an air purifier, UV lamp box combo in each office/classroom? I've never thought about that, but it seems like such an obvious thing to do now
So in our entirely sanitized and sterilized environments we would be free from airborne and waterborne disease, but the moment we step outside of it our underdeveloped immune systems would be incapable of fighting off the common cold? That seems like a bad idea.
The most interesting application I’ve seen mentioned was a proposal to shine far-UVC light directly at a patient during surgery. The idea is that it would kill most pathogens that might end up inside the patient while still being mostly harmless to the patient even when being shined inside them.
At the start of the CoViD pandemic I installed a UV lamp(turned on using a current sensor on the blower fan power wires) in the return air manifold on my furnace. My family still ended up all getting CoViD once one of us got it. But I keep it there because... why not? I'm sure it helps reduce the viral load in the air a bit.
I remember researching if air purifiers helped with viral load. From what I remember viruses themselves are too thin but depending on the humidity, they might get stuck in water microscopic droplets and those could be blocked.
On the other hand I think the problem with viruses is that they travel more when the air is drier.
I can't wait for a dynomight article about this :D
"This happened despite murine norovirus being more resistant to far-UVC than many common human respiratory viruses, likely due to its tough protein outer ‘shell’.".
Under wide spread use, would viruses simply mutate to being more resistant to far-UVC?
>Instead, it thoroughly damages microbial genomes at random, destroying bacteria and viruses alike, whether they are drug-resistant, vaccine-evasive, or indeed newly emerged.
A view which treats microbes and viruses into generalized buckets of 'good' or 'bad' is far too simplistic. It's interesting that there is no concern with a "random, destroying" action that avoids even a whiff of mention on impact to the vast benign or helpful biomes that would also be randomly destroyed.
Admittedly, I know very little in this space. However, I've formed an opinion that the complex interplay of these biomes has non-deterministic outcomes. Pathogenic microbe impacts could be as much a symptom/reflection of an imbalanced healthy ecosystem within the local environment versus a sudden "invasive" presence that needs destruction. It seems very reckless to indiscriminately torch a local environments microbe population without acknowledging that your well-intentioned efforts may be taking an imbalanced environment and making it even more imbalanced.
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I can't wait for a dynomight article about this :D
"This happened despite murine norovirus being more resistant to far-UVC than many common human respiratory viruses, likely due to its tough protein outer ‘shell’.".
Under wide spread use, would viruses simply mutate to being more resistant to far-UVC?
>Instead, it thoroughly damages microbial genomes at random, destroying bacteria and viruses alike, whether they are drug-resistant, vaccine-evasive, or indeed newly emerged.
A view which treats microbes and viruses into generalized buckets of 'good' or 'bad' is far too simplistic. It's interesting that there is no concern with a "random, destroying" action that avoids even a whiff of mention on impact to the vast benign or helpful biomes that would also be randomly destroyed.
Admittedly, I know very little in this space. However, I've formed an opinion that the complex interplay of these biomes has non-deterministic outcomes. Pathogenic microbe impacts could be as much a symptom/reflection of an imbalanced healthy ecosystem within the local environment versus a sudden "invasive" presence that needs destruction. It seems very reckless to indiscriminately torch a local environments microbe population without acknowledging that your well-intentioned efforts may be taking an imbalanced environment and making it even more imbalanced.
War is peace ? /s