The wealthy know how to protect themselves and don't think COVID is mild
While most governments and public health organizations are downplaying the severity of #COVID and relying on a vaccine only strategy, do you know who is taking COVID much more seriously? #DavosSafe 🧵1/
While most governments and public health organizations are downplaying the severity of #COVID and relying on a vaccine only strategy, do you know who is taking COVID much more seriously? #DavosSafe 🧵1/
An unrolled one-page web view for this long thread that may be easier to read or share can be found here (
https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1618219169346125828). 2/
The wealthy at the World Economic Forum (WEF) have already implemented all/most of the COVID safety precautions that many engineers, scientists and parents have been advocating for in schools, businesses, and other public indoor locations for years to help keep people safe. 3/
Unlike what the general public is told, the WEF understands that major infrastructural change is required to keep people safe like the installation of sewage systems and water treatment plants to combat waterborne illnesses such as cholera ( thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/… ). 4/
Looking at history, plagues don't usually end until the human hosts of those pathogens re-engineer the environment that allows those pathogens to thrive. 5/
Sewage used to be dumped into rivers, swamps, and estuaries which were key breeding grounds for cholera, until engineers improved water treatment and wastewater disposal. 6/
Unfortunately cholera still thrives today in dirty water and places where communities have not been provided clean water. 7/
Now we have other pathogens including respiratory viruses, that thrive in the poorly ventilated dirty air in crowded indoor space, a product of modern buildings designed to save energy. 8/
Unlike our ancestors, many of us spend 90% of our time indoors, often breathing air full of viruses, chemicals, and other particles. When money is involved, these people understand the risks and what mitigations to put in place to help reduce them. 9/
It is obvious that the WEF doesn't think COVID is mild or they wouldn't have gone to this much trouble implementing all of their safety measures ( www3.weforum.org/docs/AM23_Heal… ). 10/
Before entering the conference, every attendee was PCR tested and if positive their access was automatically removed (
https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1614618891212267521). 11/
For those that wanted to wear masks, free high quality FFP2 masks (similar to KN95/N95) were provided and free rapid tests were available at any time including a dedicated COVID hotline people could call. 12/
The on-site official drivers were required to wear masks at all times but for attendees it was optional thanks to the other measures put in place. 13/
In order to make indoor spaces safe enough for people so they did not have to wear masks all the time at the conference, the WEF installed state-of-the-art ventilation systems including HEPA filters placed throughout. 14/
You can see photos of people wearing their coats, likely because of fresh air coming in from the cold Swiss winter air to improve air quality (
https://twitter.com/KashPrime/status/1615745744673148929). 15/
What we are being told is good enough for us in terms of safety, is not good enough for them (
https://twitter.com/lisa_iannattone/status/1615817952649187328). Everyone deserves to be #DavosSafe. 16/
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (@O_S_P_E) have released evidence-based guidance around indoor air quality and transmission of COVID-19 ( ospe.on.ca/indoor-air-qua… ). 17/
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has committed to developing an indoor air quality (IAQ) pathogen mitigation standard ( ashrae.org/about/news/202… ). 18/
ASHRAE has also published a document calling for better air quality as an effective means of reducing viral transmission ( ashrae.org/File%20Library… ). 19/
France has set new CO2 standards for classrooms since high CO2 levels can indicate poor ventilation and act as a proxy for potential poor air quality (
https://twitter.com/KashPrime/status/1610296744478216194). 20/
With Omicron variants being much more transmissible, a preprint study in France found that during multiple waves in 2022, children played the greatest relative role in propagating waves of the Omicron epidemics, particularly when schools were open ( medrxiv.org/content/10.110… ).21/
It seems a good idea to prioritize improving the infrastructure of the locations that would have the most impact, like schools, especially since children have the longest amount of their lives left so would be suffering longer from any long-term impact from infection. 22/
Would improving ventilation actually help in schools, and has anyone measured an impact? It turns out a study in Italy actually looked at more than 10,000 classrooms and compared ventilation rates. 23/
They found classrooms equipped with mechanical ventilation systems decreased the relative risk of COVID infection by at least 74% compared to classrooms with only natural ventilation ( frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… ). H/T: @linseymarr 24/
For classrooms that were able to obtain ventilation rates greater than 10L per second per student, risk of infection decreased even further to at least 80% lower. 25/
Cleaner air not only reduces the risk from COVID infection but all other viruses that transmit in aerosols through the air like influenza and other respiratory viruses. 26/
Cleaner air also protects from multiple different types of air pollutants linked to various health problems and cognitive impairment which you can learn more about here (
https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1607379781892575234). 27/
If we don't start cleaning the air indoors for everyone, we will see even more real-world examples of the impact of COVID infection such as cardiovascular complications (
https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1586043132134576128). 28/
And real-world examples of the impact of COVID infection on the brain and neurological complications (
https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1617492887461318656). 29/
A real-world example of a young woman 28 years old disabled from the pandemic, infected in March 2020 before the vaccines were available with only a mild illness at first but then she never got better ( thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/… ). 30/
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