I think it would be nice if we could all work together to expand this community a bit and we can do this by suggesting what you would like to see in the sidebar and any resources we can compile together to add to it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

air filtration is great but I feel like it's much less important than getting people to wear masks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, if everyone wore an n95 in public for a while we would get rid of a bunch of diseases. Its frustrating.

Air filtration is just another layer of protection. If you are at home with someone sick, it helps prevent transmission. Or if you have a shared workplace, you can run one and be reasonably safe if you are alone and need to eat lunch or whatever. It's not going to help if someone is close range and coughing in your face, but it does help keep the virus from accumulating or staying in the air.

In hospital wards where they ran HEPA filters, they pretty much eliminated transmission, but I assume that was on top of mask protocols in place.