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they are a little bit, but the vacuum between what makes sense and what they are doing is remarkable. I am more concerned with the active propaganda, which is hard to discuss and spot, but for instance we see the bots which someone is funding, and the way the media stilts things.

@ukhadds @sameo416 @open_erv Short version: they are -not retracting the denial of airborne transmission; -not advising the public on how to mitigate airborne transmission; -not spending on ventilation/filtration/UV/respirators/isolation. They = public health agencies; hospital/school bureaucracies

History is repeating itself. Great to see the failures of the past being recognised. Would be better to see people use our improved understanding moving forward.

Absolutely -the WHO was wrong too. However, those reading the literature should have recognised that the emperor had no evidence for its assertions.

There's also not a word about the active, ongoing propaganda, including actively funded social media bots etc. or the stuff described at …terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/how-the-covi…

This covid-19 inquiry seems very much to be only another part of the larger propaganda campaign, imo. It's just like what I remember reading about the Challenger disaster inquiry, which Feynman provided an inside view on. The inquiry itself is as much of a clown show as what came before it, which it was supposed to be investigating. Same as the challenger disaster, the ruling class didn't deliberately plot to kill people, but the reality is their priorities were in a very distant place. This is exactly what happens when control over what happens to us is not in our hands, but someone else's, especially these "epstein class" people who generally have the purse strings. The absence of understanding of airborne transmission before the pandemic, despite it's obvious power and historical influence, is itself political. Not an organized conspiracy, but an outgrowth of what the ruling class does and doesn't want. They fund the crap out of things they want to find out more about, but this wasn't one of them. Any more than they funded research on smoking or lead or radiation early and effectively. They didn't want to know any more than they want us to know now! They already knew they didn't want to know. It matters to us, but not so much to them. That's political. This shit doesn't have to be on purpose to go just as far south.

@ukhadds The absence of more research before the pandemic on this important fundamental transmission route is itself political in origin to some degree though, I think. So the understanding and the politics are linked way way back through time.

@open_erv Dogmas are hard to shake. Personally, I don’t think it’s an active cover up, but rather people simply echoing what they are told and hoping that it’s true. Reality is a lot scarier to deal with. That said, at some point it was too obvious to deny.

Yeah but nobody wants to fight, and in reality their bread was buttered on the wrong side, that's clear. The ruling class has well before the pandemic hated the idea of work from home or the refractory nature of preventing airborne transmission. Denial was I think always the plan.

I don't think it's that hard, really. Portable air purifiers and far-uvc would pretty much do it. ERV would be a good idea but that's not a major reno. They however do have other motivations that add up to the same things, for example they hated how people found other ways to live, not going to restaurants etc. nearly as much. They also hated work from home as commercial real estate rents went out the window. They fear liability for sure, but seriously the actual cost of clean air has got to be the least of it. It's really not very expensive in perspective.

because acknowledging most pathogens are airborne means renovating every public building, providing free respirators to the whole population, and cleaning the air. and they don’t want to do so they shift it on individual responsibility and everyone just needs to wash their hands!

people will really say anything to self-persuade they don’t need to wear a mask. they’re so terribly scared of the new reality that will unveil if they acknowledge they in fact do, of all the harm they’ve caused to themselves and others.

As usual they are framing the whole thing like it was some honest mistake instead of deliberate attempts to cover up inconvenient truths. It's just like the investigation of the Challenger disaster, which Feynman blew open, revealing the corruption of the "inquiry" itsself. There were tons of people trying to tell everyone since the very beginning that it was airborne, and it was deliberately hushed up.

Thank you @jim_reed The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that healthy indoor air quality (IAQ) is just as important as clean water. We spend about 90% of our lives breathing indoor air, which is often polluted and threatens our health as well as our success at school and at work.

@MokaMikiTara There are many other ways, AI is a useful tool and should be leveraged however. Forfeit it at your own peril.

@open_erv Is there no other way? Many aspects very concerning

I'm actually investigating using AI for further improvements to the Big Quiet Fan blade geometry. It may seem too late, but not really. I don't have much hope it will help, but I want to give it a fair shake so that base is covered. It is also not unreasonable to change things in the future, perhaps in the years ahead as the technology improves, as the modularity allows for this without changing much else. However, it would be more economical and effective to do it now, so I shall spend a little time investigating, in a way that does not slow down or impede the progress towards mass production (there is some dead time here anyway).

@ThePollLady @DreamH29921 Yeah but people could have done it before, and they were clearly never going to. The taps had to be turned off. This may be one of the best things that's happened to humanity, and all it took was a couple missiles.

@DreamH29921 It’s not just about oil and gas. Fertilizers and chemical precursors are also affected. Sure, countries will eventually move to alternatives but it happen at much higher prices now And scaling production at this level takes years. Shortages are almost inevitable.

People don’t fully realize how bad things are going to get for everyone. Israel and the U.S. (which denies involvement) struck Iran’s South Pars gas field. In response, Iran targeted Qatar’s North Field. These are two halves of the same reservoir the largest natural gas field on the planet. This single shared field spans about 9,700 km², roughly the size of Qatar itself, and contributes close to 20% of global LNG supply. It took decades and around $70 billion to build the infrastructure. And now, both sides of it have been hit. Even more concerning this field is only about 10% depleted. That means 90% of its gas is still underground. In simple terms, a huge portion of the world’s future energy supply has just become impossible to access. Roughly 35–50% of India’s LNG imports come from here. We are not talking about a short-term disruption. Damage at this scale could take years, possibly a decade, to fully recover from. And the bigger truth is, the global energy landscape may have just been permanently altered for the worse. From an energy perspective, this is dangerously close to a worst-case scenario. Rationing and energy export bans may start appearing in many countries soon. India could follow likely after upcoming state elections pass. Trump knows he messed up. You can believe his denial of involvement in hitting Iran’s South Pars if you want, but realistically, there is almost no chance a strike of this sensitivity happens without full visibility from U.S. Central Command. Operations in that region don’t happen in isolation. At this point, it looks like the U.S. has lost control of its own foreign policy direction. The greatest miscalculation for Trump may not have been the strike itself but allowing the situation to escalate into this war in the first place. He thought Iran, weakened by sanctions, internal pressure, and prior U.S.–Israeli strikes on its nuclear infrastructure, would quickly fold and unconditionally surrender after initial shocks, including high-level assassinations. But that assumption now looks flawed. Instead of collapse, Iran responds with escalation. That is why a bully like Trump is posting “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE” But it will be extremely difficult for Iran to return to any meaningful dialogue with US since they have repeatedly shifted from negotiations to military action.

It's not for the worse, it's for the better. We must use much less fossil fuel, this is beyond debate. You can do it before the price hike or after, people were not getting on with it. This will align incentives to use solar thermal and so on, which works great but nobody could be arsed to do before now.

In other words, should have gotten off fossil fuel before. Like so many people were telling everyone. Well, time to get started now, then, nothing else for it. Lots to do, lots of jobs lots of tech still. Most energy is wasted anyway, just don't do that and there is tons to spare.

I am, obviously, against destroying the global economy But, there is a sort of odd energy here where it is so plainly obvious where weaknesses are being exposed. Nothing happened until the worlds gas supply for all of those consumer goods we depend on took a hit, and then things get taken seriously... and they wonder why Iran chose this strategy...? This was gamed out before, Millennium Challenge 2002. Paul K. Van Riper, a retired USMC general, took part in a wargaming exercise and exposed risks in US strategy due to persistence & asymmetric strategies (to reduce it a lot), this resulted in huge simulated losses. They halted it, changed things around, introduced a bias & reran. This exact scenario hasn't played out, this was the 2000s after all, but we have seen an economic equivalent in that the Iranian response has been to largely target infrastructure the entire global economy depends on instead. I do not condone this, but when Western leaders start talking about civilian wellbeing in relatively wealthy Gulf states, they're actually talking about their bottom line & their respective patrons margins. Even here, Macron knows French industry can't run hydraulics lines, lubricate machinery or power gas machinery with their intact Nuclear Energy infrastructure - I can't remember the exacts, and it differs in places, but electricity only makes up ~20% of industrial energy requirements. Methods to use energy-to-X hydrocarbon production methods are slow & lacking in development - CapEx here is not easy, especially if your grid depends on LNG. In the long term, if this escalates and continues for the indefinite we will likely see (otherwise) economically stable first world nations relying on things like biogas, environmental barriers to logging/lumber will be relaxed or overruled by emergency powers (this started happening a couple of years back following the invasion of Ukraine, MoD has a lot of timber in acquisition records you can access online for free). Like, to conclude here this is bad for business for anyone outside of energy production & now you're seeing that reflected by how politicians are responding to it suddenly.

Time to learn how to use PHA, a class of polymers which can be made from bio feedstocks. I also know a guy Devin who wants to/has the skills to make a system that produces hydrocarbons from wood. He's a chemical engineer. @Enginerd_Devin

Good article. After reading this, I noticed it was written by someone I have sent a prototype fan to. Unfortunately nothing came of it, but it's cool to be part of the community: "The New Paradigm of Airborne Disease" ssir.org/articles/entry… . I don't know why twitter doesn't show a preview.

Join us and @AirSupportBox on Thursday, March 19th at 12 noon ET / 4pm GMT for a conversation with Ariana Zwern and Marisa Swanson on being a young adult who's living with Long COVID.

These students were probably living in closely packed, ancient, poorly ventilated rooms. Spread of disease is inevitable. Many illnesses are more airborne than we'd like to think. It's sad that we didn't learn anything from the pandemic about proper ventilation.

The most insane part of it all is that *last time* there was a massive problem with the natural gas supply system, nobody even tried to adapt by e.g. using solar thermal. Everyone has to stop burning fossil fuels, that is a fact. Might as well start now, make lemonade.