23 May

SO many people are sick right now. I’ve heard from so many schools in particular who are struggling to even function. The things is, there’s a pretty simple way to make this a lot better. Put 2 or 3 purifiers in each classroom. There’s an upfront cost, but it pays for itself many times over with reduced illness for staff and students. Have your hand sanitiser there for things like gastro outbreaks, but washing hands is USELESS for Covid, flu, colds, RSV etc. They’re *airborne* diseases. The IKEA Starkivinds are great - cheap, and the filters are super cheap. You can even configure to act as a table in the room. You need them to run at a fairly high rate, so there’ll be fan noise, but we run ordinary fans in the heat and nobody even notices the noise. And OPEN THE WINDOWS in the classrooms, follow Florence Nightingale. In winter there’s cold, but you can still have them open a bit, with heating still running. You MUST get fresh air into the rooms.