🎯 All of this! I'll never understand how manufacturers didn't take the opportunity in early 2020 to better promote room/office sized HEPA filters. By now they should be as prevalent in homes and offices as a fridge or microwave.
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The *manufacturers* were! The problem is that as soon as Biden decided to move the country to a vax-only strategy, all the NPIs went against the narrative, and businesses sure as hell didn't want to pay the money for air quality upgrades. It was, in the end, ALL about the money, not lives.
jul 24, 2025, 4:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Also recall that the U.S. mask industry ramped up (more like rose from the dead) in 2020-21, expecting huge orders, then Biden went the vax only route and the entire industry collapsed. The same with far-UVC: we could've had Sterilray and other companies producing under DPA, but both Trump & ...
jul 24, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
...Biden had zero interest in doing that. The same could've been done for HEPA systems, of course.
jul 24, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup. The COVID response was a bipartisan failure in the US that I'll never forgive or forget.
jul 24, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth. Although Team Blue blames everything and every casualty of it on Trump.
jul 24, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
You'd think businesses would do it anyway to reduce absenteeism, COVID or not. But I've given up expecting people to do what's right or logical.
jul 24, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
It was all shortsighted, even with the various predictions of the impacts on the workforce. Businesses didn't want to spend the money; they figured they'd just squeeze the workers harder, and that's pretty much what happened.
jul 24, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Delta Airlines was perhaps the biggest example, by reducing worker quarantine from 10 days to five, as I recall, when it was originally said 14 days was optimal.
jul 24, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep, although even that (Dec 2021) was well past The Great Unmasking in May of that year, just as Delta was exploding in India. Utter madness.
jul 24, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view