#AirPurification would be desirable in #Canada not just because of #Covid, but also because many older school buildings incorporate #asbestos in materials that are slowly degrading and may be exposed to the air in the building.
Similarly, #mold problems are very common.
Both are health hazards that are wildly underestimated.
On the nice to have side, #AirFiltration would also limit unwanted distractions in classrooms like seasonal allergy symptoms.
A fun bit about public fund mismanagement without internal misconduct.
The cost of adding adequate #AirFiltration / #AirPurification to a school is generally (by far) inferior to the total cost hospitalizations & chronic illness from not doing it will induce.
The public is left with the bill in both cases.
So on a systemic level, not investing in air purification in schools is very literally wasting public funds by choosing the least efficient & highest suffering path.
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@dalias @petersuber Honestly, just remembering previous #tuberculosis #epidemics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_air_school), #BlackMold and such, it should have been obvious that the moment #AirPurification / #AirSanitation became possible, it should've been mandatory.
For sure masks as well, but we might well just... not have air-transmitted epidemics & pandemics anymore if #AirQuality was a basic thing one could assume to be good everywhere.
