One of the predictions I made many years ago was that Long Covid would slowly cripple workforces. Covid still exists, and that we deliberately don’t try to count cases any more doesn’t change that.

This is typical of our handling of all problems. We just pretend they don’t exist and won’t have serious consequences if we ignore them. While China is somewhat better, with their hard push on clean tech, their willingness to deflate housing prices and their policies reducing the number of billionaires, they too have ignored Covid.

Ironically this is because the Chinese government IS quite sensitive to public opinion. Zero Covid was the right policy, but it was done stupidly and as a result huge demonstrations occurred and the CPC backed down.

Shutdowns made sense in the early days of Covid. This is public health 101 during a pandemic. But as with everyone else the Chinese did them too late and too long.

The actual solution is the one we used for water borne diseases. We cleaned up the water, and we have to clean up the air. All public buildings and all apartment buildings and condos need filters and UV to clean the air. It’s a huge project, to be sure, but it’s more than doable, for less than we are spending on the insane AI data center push. The result would be a lot less Covid, less disabling and at the same time less flu, colds and other airborne diseases.

It’s simple. We have the technology, and we aren’t doing it. Insanity. Not even in most hospitals. Emergency protocols like masks and isolation make sense, but they are emergency protocols and not for long term use. Find out the vector and find a long term solution to the vector.

This solution was understood as early as late 2001. Many voices were raised. Nothing was done.

Our predecessors did what they could. If you remember the old steam and hot water heating systems, you know they usually ran too hot so that people had to open windows to cool down, even in the middle of winter. This was deliberate, the designers wanted those windows open to increase ventilation, because they knew the great post-World War I flu pandemic had been airborne.

We have better tech, and better solutions and we’re just sitting on our thumbs and rotating.

Pathetic.

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