[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] why do you get sick in the winter

[Robert Primak]

 Agreed that indoor air in many buildings could be cleaned up a lot. This issue needs a lot of work, and not enough attention has been paid.
As for not screening out the virus, COVID-19 is not spread by naked viruses. It is spread on droplets in aerosols. N95 and KN95 masks, if worn correctly will filter out nearly all the infectious agent in this context.
Buit due to early shortages, government and medical advice has been to wear just about any face covering. This has not stopped the spread of COVID-19.
So I'll go along with your suggestion that indoor air filtering needs to be upgraded. Not just for COVID reasons, but also for allergy reasons, as well as "sick building syndrome". This also getsa into how much outside air needs to be exchanged with indoors air to make the buildings less "sick". 
-- Bob Primak 

    On Friday, January 6, 2023 at 12:06:52 PM EST, Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 John,
Interesting except for the comment about masks“Wearing masks may have a dual protective role,” says Bleier. “One is certainly preventing physical inhalation of the [viral] particles, but also by maintaining local temperatures, at least at a relatively higher level than the outside environment.”

The kind of a mask that can prevent physical inhalation of "naked virons" needs to be carefully fitted, have an internal positive pressure and has a filtering capacity beyond HEPA Now some less capable masks can filter out the small blobs of "stuff" infected with the virus -- but even that kind of a mask is not something you will want to wear for extended time
No -- we are all missing the opportunity to focus on cleaning the indoor air -- make indoor air inhospitable for the virus as the "great outdoors" and you will dramatically decrease colds, flu, covid and probably other airborne viral disease
Ted
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 8:14 PM john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:


Interesting article from WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/why-do-you-get-sick-in-the-winter-blame-your-nose/?bxid=5bf82a6624c17c5aa3198362&cndid=28192571&esrc=bouncexmulti_first&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_010223&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_010223&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=P2

 

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