Funding to improve and upgrade ventilation and air filtration across schools and healthcare settings in Ireland must be allocated as a matter of urgency.

#CleanTheAir

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Encouraging people to take airborne precautions like staying home when sick, wearing a mask, ventilating shared spaces, introducing hepa filters (that should have been done for preventing COVID-19 already) would help to contain the spread. Children don't deserve this constant barrage of infection.

This time last year, 80 electricity poles collapsed into the bog under the *slightest* dusting of snow in my area. If the ESB can't maintain basic infrastructure like power lines, I have absolutely zero faith we have any kind of capacity in Ireland to manage nuclear power 🫠.

It's very concerning that Irish government policy on renewable energy seems to be tied to the expansion of data centres, especially given the current AI boom - it is a twin 'digitisation and decarbonisation' strategy. Households/small businesses won't benefit from low-cost renewable energy.

It would be amazing if more public spaces placed CO2 monitors for the public to see as an accessibility tool (for people to judge how safe a space is in terms of picking up an airborne infection) but also as an interesting metric to have, like the temperature or humidity levels in an environment.

CO2 monitors are a really fun tool, but most importantly, they are really enlightening. Without a smell, there's no immediately obvious way to tell how good or bad the ventilation/air quality is. Of course, if everyone starts nodding off, it's pretty clear that CO2 levels are too high.

I'm still obsessed by how good the air quality was on that boat. Very impressive ventilation going on, making it very accessible for people with immunocompromised health problems and underdeveloped immune systems like infants/toddlers.