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Why? Because your employer said fuck you? And "ineffective"? On what do you even think you could base that judgement? We catch cases every week and to our knowledge have never had an instance of in-office transmission.
We, as a society, could be better. We could have maintained free testing, mandated COVID leave, and invested in better air cleanliness. There's a reason nurses aren't just constantly infected, and it's not because they have super vaccines the rest of us don't get.
There's a cost for these preventions, but there's a very real cost for vax and forget. Millions more people have been disabled and removed from the workforce, every bout makes you more likely to get long COVID, and it's compounding other health problems, leading to earlier death and unusual ailments. These are societal costs whether or not you individually have avoided being the unlucky ones.
To answer your questions, air purifiers are not enough to protect people from Covid according to the CDC, unless you're masking, and you didn't mention that. Also, regular testing is expensive and you mentioned nurses, they wear masks.
Otherwise I suppose I need to read more about long covid. However, a lot of the symptoms sound like a lot of other things, like depression or lupus or Lyme disease. I'll take a look at your links in a bit and will be curious to see how it's diagnosed vs other things. Regardless, I still believe there isn't much we can do given cost, inconvenience and everyone longing for a sense of normalcy even still, agree to disagree on that I guess.
N95s can be reused to reduce cost. Cycle through 5 masks so that each mask sits for 4 days between uses. Throw away if it gets wet, becomes hard to breathe through, is visibly dirty, or will no longer fit tightly.
Air purifiers aren't enough to protect people, but they're a simple passive solution that would impact infection rates for a population that largely doesn't want to mask. Few people mask at my workplace. And air purification will help will all other sorts of disease, including helping us be resilient to the next pandemic, because it's a when and not an if. You mentioned often being sick with non-COVID colds and flus. Even if it's not a complete protection, wouldn't it be nice to be sick 20% less? Your community has a major source of disease transmission right there that they could reduce.
We should be coming out of COVID better prepared, instead we're even worse off.
I'm not often sick, I have had maybe five colds in the last two years. Pretty standard when you have small children and not nearly as bad as when they were in daycare prior to covid.
I find you incredibly unreasonable. Enjoy your bunker and be well.
Flu and other regular seasonal illnesses also carry the risk of long-term health consequences. People focus on "long covid" because it's new, but chronic health issues resulting from illnesses to which we are accustomed typically don't even merit conversation let alone the sort of protocols suggested by some for covid. It used to simply be called "post-infectious syndrome" or "myalgic encephalomyelitis syndrome."
I guess it's not surprising that there is an equal and opposite ideology to antivaxxers, but I do find them just about equal in terms of intractibility and unreasonableness. Two extreme and unrealistic views bunkered in silos of their own creation.
What completely braindead comparison. Cold and seasonal illnesses do not have remotely the same rate of severe long term issues as COVID. People also sometime got lasting diseases from stubbed toes, it doesn't make it comparable to COVID. You don't have 3-7% incidence rate for colds resulting in symptoms lasting two months and impacting daily life.
The enlightened centrism comparing antivaxxers to actual scientists is just the cherry on top.
K.