Amazingly, this is not being treated as a big problem.
However, my claim is that a lot of progress on these issues doesn't need to be very public. Telling the public to do a thing sounds like the last step of the process, after researchers have already found a definitive solution.
I also agree that researchers have a limited amount of resources! But I don't think that funding a research area is necessarily zero-sum. If a company or government decides to throw extra money to start researching a thing, research on other things doesn't stop. As an example, when the NSF provides more funding for research, the number of PhD students goes up, since there are more research grants to go around.
The recent progress of AI is a bigger concern.
There was no reason to end mask mandates. None. Except a few loudmouths the entire world have caved to.
We have seen how cheap DIY filter boxes are. There is no reason not to have one in every classroom and workplace. And yet.
I am desperate enough to experiment with a Cleanspace Halo, the smallest positive air pressure respirator there is to be able to go among people. If no one else is willing to provide clean air, I need to filter my own. It's bloody ridiculous but what can I do?
I don't expect to ever go into an ER or pediatrician's office without one.
The idea that only deaths matter is part of this narrative.
[1] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-04-01/covid-accep...
It very quickly stopped being about finding what is a reasonable policy to just a stupid culture war fight over all masks all the time vs any masks anytime are communist police state designed to make your child gay.
Just dumb dumb dumb.
Even in places that handled the pandemic fairly well like NZ their mask policies were kind of silly.
My peeve that I will never stop being angry about is we knew from quite early on that COVID was airborne and surgical masks were not very effective. But public health authorities refused to communicate this to the public. They did not make an effort to make people aware or to issue N95/KN95 masks and update the policies to reflect more balance about which places it’s optimal to mask vs not.
It was just left to individuals to work it out on their own.
(The trick of N95 masks is that they have a charged electret layer in the middle. That will capture particles smaller than the holes in the mask. It's not like an HEPA filter, which is purely mechanical.)
They’re running three beefy HEPA filters at all times in one room, this isn’t politically motivated or an attempt to ignore the problem.
Do something instead of playing Bush on that bloody ship under the banner Mission Accomplished by declaring the pandemic over?
Right. Isn't this the situation if you wear a mask? What does this have to do with other people?
y'all just want us to die, right?
There is a lot of money going into making you believe what you believe. Next time maybe there won't be lockdowns because of this campaign currently being wrought and then many more millions will die. Someone will win perhaps but guess who. Hint: it ain't you.
And where is my freedom? Where is my freedom to live and not breath in your infected droplets?
https://www.bryanhealth.com/app/files/public/9a4cd902-5ffd-4...
give me a break. Yes wearing a mask helps me as well but nowhere near as if you were doing it.
Don't make me link the pee meme.
Us both wearing masks protects you as much as you wearing two masks. But even better, you can just wear an N99 or N100. Also you should consider P95 or Pxx because of the much nicer seal.
I don't understand why you need to get other people involved in this simple thing you can do yourself.