Lol they actually mention, not just masking, but respirators. wowee

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    17 days ago

    Every Covid-minimizing parent I know was in love with that error-ridden study that's been retracted. I can't wait for them to not incorporate the correction into their worldview.

    Finally, we can implement fantastic new engineered indoor air quality standards designed to greatly reduce the spread of germs. Clean indoor air should be expected as a right, like clean water. The cost of providing cleaner indoor air is low relative to the economic benefits, which even when conservatively modeled are in the tens of billions annually in the U.S. and more than ten times the costs. These costs are also small compared to the price children and their families would pay in suffering as a result of preventable long-term impairment.

    Fighting air inequality should be a rallying cry and should be a major component of any "infrastructure bill". But I hate to break it to the author here that clean water can no longer be expected in this country, either.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      16 days ago

      In Stephen King's Running Man (first published under Bachman) a major plot point was that rich people were walking around with air filters in their noses and the kids on the street were building their own because so many of them were dying of cancer and shit from pollution. This was published in 1982.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      14 days ago

      Since parents don't want to believe they harmed their children, they will never admit that covid might be the cause of anything going on with their kids.