The following report is from ABC News:
The Biden administration will announce new building ventilation standards for schools and businesses on Thursday — a welcome step for experts who feel the U.S. has long been behind the curve on using air filtration as a valuable tool to fight COVID-19.
The new guidance, the latest addition to President Joe Biden’s recent COVID-19 plan, is the first time such a standard has been created at the national level, synthesizing expert guidance on how clean air can prevent the spread of illness.
The new recommendations, which will be rolled out by the Environmental Protection Agency, urge all building owners and operators to hit four main steps in the form of a detailed “checklist” to ultimately get more fresh air in.
It’s a two-page document. It’s written in plain language, very straightforward. We think this is an action list that really all buildings can draw from.
Mary Wall, a senior policy adviser at the White House, told ABC News.
The checklist includes tasks that cost money, like hiring an expert in HVAC systems to assess the building or adding extra ventilation to “higher risk areas,” like a school nurses office, but also immediate, low-effort advice like opening windows and doors at opposite sides of a room to allow for “cross ventilation.”
In the next few weeks, the White House will also announce a recognition program, Wall said, which will award buildings for their ventilation systems, similar to LEED certification awards for sustainable buildings.
Experts like Dr. Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, say the new guidance will be a necessary part of the country’s COVID-19 response.
The thing I think that is most important about this is the White House is using its pulpit to drive home the message that clean air and buildings matter. That sounds simple, but it’s actually long overdue.
Said Allen, who advised the White House on the policy and has publicly pushed for greater focus on ventilation since early in the pandemic.
While it could have been helpful over the last two years, this is a particularly good moment to turn attention toward ventilation, Allen said, because it can be “operating all the time, in the background,” even as masking has become a personal choice.
It also comes at a time when Americans are enjoying relaxed coronavirus measures, but cautiously eying a rise in cases in Europe and China from a more transmissible strain of omicron called the BA.2 variant that is expected to soon hit the U.S. to the same effect.
We should take this reprieve. We’re certainly gonna get another curveball in the future. When, where or what that looks like is undetermined, but we should be ready. These are improvements we could be making — getting our buildings ready.
Allen said
The Biden administration has no way to enforce the recommendations, though some experts sees it as a strong first step.
David Michaels, another adviser on the plan and a former head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, acknowledged that the federal government has no authority over indoor air, but compared this step to how the ban on indoor smoking became widespread in the early 2000s, despite no national laws in place.
This will push states and cities to issue indoor rules just as they did on tobacco smoke.
Said Michaels, who is also a professor at George Washington University.
No new federal funding has been set aside to encourage buildings to upgrade their ventilation.
Wall pointed to existing funding streams, including the $122 billion allocated to schools through the American Rescue Plan for coronavirus relief and money in the infrastructure legislation Biden signed in November, as resources to help pay for improvements.
The White House intends the latest EPA standards to “re-raise this as an important priority,” Wall said, particularly for schools that haven’t yet been able to invest in better ventilation.
I think that this is something that people haven’t been as focused on, but that it can be very effective in reducing COVID spread.
Wall said
Proponents of improving the nation’s indoor air quality also point to “decades of benefits that go beyond COVID.”
In schools, better air quality has been shown to impact student test performance in math and reading. It’s also led to reduced asthma attacks and fewer absences, Allen said.
On the business front, studies have shown fewer workers call out sick, higher cognitive function and better productivity. Allen, in his research, estimated the benefit of good air quality to be about $7,000 per person, per year, before COVID.
We should have been doing this all along. But in terms of why now with COVID, we should be prepared for whatever comes next.
Allen said
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Since we know Covid is a joke, I am wondering what the real underlying reason is for this. I know this somehow plays into the smart city initiative for their future “utopias” of purported clean air, but the real answer alludes me right now. Perhaps this is another very subtle way of the government sneaking their way into businesses even further?
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Maybe another way and avenue to continue to desensitize and brainwash people to seeing and accepting the mark to come in the future? Because people will be seeing and looking for these signs and symbols which are supposed to convey a particular meaning or reason to have them. Either way it’s not good and even more reason to stay away from any of these places. I am pretty sure some kind of tracking is involved even if it is just starting with a list. A lot of evil being under the guise of good.
They are installing equipment that creates reactive oxygen species in order to “clean” the air when in reality it is damaging the lungs. The Fullerton Informer YouTube channel is a good source regarding these “upgrades”.
Should’ve guessed it’s designed to kill us.
The Foul Air Guidelines.
It’s probably an area of effect sedation (crowd control); Or it’s a spin off of gas chambers.
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Airlines drop oxygen masks when they’re about to crash – It’s not meant to save the passenger, but it’s to drug them up to the eyeballs so they wouldn’t go into mass hysteria. Purported ventilation systems might be used into the same effect, albeit, intrusively. Secondly, it can be used as a “contingency plan”, if occupants are deemed “non-compliant”.
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High levels of oxygen can make you high; Exorbitant levels can make you a statistic..
Funny how the Nazi death camps would crowd people into rooms, and fill the room with toxic gases (like Zyklon B) in order to kill the people.
No connection I am sure…
Of course the populace must also be taught that normal breathing outdoors is somehow dangerous, especially without your nice paper slave mask! It is only safe to be inside breathing the nice filtered air, drinking your Fluoridated water, taking your “life-saving” drugs, and eating your excitotoxin-laced foods!