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"Australia is now in the grip of its second winter marred by the pandemic, with
crippling lockdowns in multiple cities.
Earlier this month, the federal government announced a four-stage plan to bring
the country back to something resembling normality. Acknowledging it will be
impossible to eradicate COVID-19 completely, the plan focuses on a variety of
steps — most notably vaccination — to enable the country to live with the
virus.
However, if we want this plan to work, there’s one crucial control measure yet
to be considered: protection against airborne transmission of the infection in
public indoor spaces.
We need to modernise our indoor environments to protect Australians from
respiratory infections, and more broadly, from all indoor air hazards. This
includes indoor exposure to pollution originating from outdoors, such as
bushfire smoke."
While this is written for an Australian audience the principles should of
course be applied everywhere.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
