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open source and low-cost air, mask, and filter quality solutions, home of the OpenCPC openaeros.com
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 16h
Join us this afternoon at 3pm CST for our first OpenRespirator Creative Cohort Live Meeting! Get to know our cohorts, get read-in on their efforts and progress, and ask your questions. Tune in here: bit.ly/48jHI6J
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 16h
This isn't Jon Jon's first creative respirator rodeo 🐎 🤠

His personal, animation, and art background are filled with masked characters. Watch him walk us through that history here:
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 16h
Join us this afternoon at 3pm CST for our first OpenRespirator Creative Cohort Live Meeting! Get to know our cohorts, get read-in on their efforts and progress, and ask your questions. Tune in here: bit.ly/48jHI6J
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 1d
Say hi to Wyatt! Wyatt's background is chemical and academic. His making has largely centered around passion projects combining his expertise with practical needs and curiosities. Here, he shares some thoughtful reflection on what masking can mean:
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 2d
Everybody say "Hi, Jon Jon!"!!
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 2d
Jon Jon is an artist, animator, masker, and maker hailing from Toronto. Jon Jon has been executing his own PPE builds and mods for years, incorporating his hobbies and art with practical and health needs. Here, he talks about cosplay and masking and the exciting opportunities in their overlap:
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 4d
IF you want to get realllllly nerdy on this, check out the full video documentation below or the full written documentation here: (4/4)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
OpenRespirator Prototyping Process
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 4d
And some background on the OpenRespirator Creative Cohort project specifically: (3/4)

www.openaeros.com/openrespirat...
OpenRespirator™ Creative Cohort — OpenAeros
www.openaeros.com
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 4d
Here's Aaron and the project's chief engineer, Jon, explaining the prototyping method and why it matters: (2/4)
OpenAeros Update - Introducing the OpenRespirator
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 4d
This year, we’ve been working with a team of passionate, creative makers to put our open source respirator prototype manufacturing methods to the test. We’re so excited to be introducing you to a couple of them this week. In the meantime, here’s some background on what we’ve been up to: (1/4)
A black and white rasterized laptop and hand holding a pen are pictured. The pen is aimed at the screen of the laptop, which appears blue with a white graphic of a mask on it. The thumbnail of the hand is painted the same blue and squiggly action lines emanate from it. Down the center of the image, weaving in and out of those graphics, appear the words "follow along" in various shades of blue. Underneath, the url openaeros.com/openrespirator is visible. An openRespirator logo with the words "creative cohort" appear in the top right.
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Aaron Collins @masknerd.bsky.social · 17d
Glad to bring the "little CPC that could" to the Healthy Indoor Air event at the UN today. The conversation in clean air are moving in the right directions.

Open source hardware will be part of the solutions and proud to show off the OpenCPC as part of tools that can help us measure it.
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Panel 4 focused more on justice (generational, environmental, economic, and health) and policy in indoor air. Speakers included Violet Affleck, UN Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen, and several others.

Now, co-signers are adding their names to the pledge
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Panel 3 ends with words from Plum Stone, CEO of Safer Air Project:

"If the act of breathing in a space makes someone sick, access isn't equitable"

"We all breathe the same air but not with the same consequences"

"unsafe air means unsafe spaces"

and finally:

"We have the tools"
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
As we move from Panel 2 to Panel 3, just want to recognize that we've missed lots of points and several speakers in this rundown. But you can watch along with us at the link above!
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Jagat Narula, President of the World Heart Federation, says that air quality is "the least visible but moist consequential" determinant of health. Had some really fascinating insights about the way that indoor air has determined human health through history. Surprise sidequest to mummy forensics!
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Now, Lidia Morawska, a leading aerosol scientist speaks: "clean air is not a privilege, but a right... a universal human right... as per the 2022 UNGA resolution." Announces that a regulatory path to clean air is on the cusp of being proven.
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Now: the reps present from France and Montenegro officially become the first signatories on the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: the first ever to affirm that access to clean indoor air is a human right. Landmark moment!
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
That concludes Panel #1
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
He continues that poor indoor air quality "amplifies the suffering of millions... protecting indoor air is as urgent as ensuring clean water or safe food"

"let us leave this room not just with ideas, but with commitments! To protect every breath is to protect life!"
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Jose Luis Castro, WHO Director-General Special Envoy for Chronic Respiratory Diseases speaks now.

"For too long indoor air has been the invisible crisis of our time"
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Fredrickson: "Healthy indoor air is not a luxury!"
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Caroline Fredrickson from the International Labor Organization is up: ILO has affirmed that every worker everywhere has the right to a safe workplace. Suggests that clean air at work is both urgently critical and preventatively important. Outlines past guidance that underlines labor air safety.
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
France calls today's pledge "a strong symbolic commitment," reiterates "we need air quality!"
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
Up next is France: "indoor air quality is a key determinant of public health"... "this is why France calls for... international cooperation on this issue."
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OpenAeros @openaeros.bsky.social · 17d
In closing, she invites us to remember that this is the year we all came together to recognize that *clean air is a right for all of us.*
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