Thread by @MarcelHarmon1

Yet more discussion on reopening universities & schools that avoids transmission via aerosols (in-room or potentially farther) & the associated ventilation, filtration, & other strategies required to address this route. 1/

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www2.ljworld.com/news/state-reg…

At this point, any building owner, facility manager, university, district, etc. attempting to reoccupy their buildings w/out effectively addressing this is unnecessarily putting occupants & their communities at greater risk. It is unconscionable.

News sources that... 2/

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ignore this in their reporting, given what we now know, are also doing their communities a disservice IMO.

Taking one example from the article, isolation rooms, living areas, floors, etc., that are not isolated mechanically (or via natural ventilation routes through... 3/

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open windows) will potentially be isolation areas in name only.

I'm going to paraphrase @ShellyMBoulder again here - if you walk into a space that feels stale/stuffy, it's probably under-ventilated & you should turn around & walk out.

Faculty, teachers, staff,...4/

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students, this is generally how you should be thinking about the various learning spaces you're having to be in. Hold your administrators & facility managers accountable for addressing this. Community members, hold your districts & universities accountable for this. 5/

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Behavior is the other issue woefully acknowledge & addressed by many universities, districts, news outlets, & community leaders, as I've discussed elsewhere.

Opting out of contact tracing, tied largely to our national fixation on the myth of the individual (which... 6/

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feeds distrust of government), particularly when community spread rates are already high to begin w/, can greatly limit contract tracing's effectiveness. Potentially making it as effective as "aerosol-non-isolating" isolation rooms.

As a society we need to do some... 7/

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work figuring out how we can more successfully "tighten up" when needed to address threats like these. And that national conversation should have started last March/April: evolution-institute.org/tightening-and…. 8/

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And as @CorsIAQ, @j_g_allen, & others have pointed out, we need to be systematically assessing in detail what's going right & wrong relative to reopening - from the level of the individual classroom, to the campus level, to the community level, to the national level,... 9/

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that also includes supply chain issues.

But w/out a national, coordinated effort that helps bring us together instead of pitting us against each other across so many domains, I'm skeptical we'll be able to do so.

We haven't collectively prepared for reopening... 10/

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this fall under the current circumstances. So w/out key leadership changes, it's doubtful we'll be able collectively evaluate strategies either.

I hope I'm wrong. I hope we don't limp through this year of education. But most days as of late I'm not that hopeful. 11/

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