In March 2020, I was shouting from the rooftops to my friends in NYC to NOT stay inside - to get up and outside, walk, get the blood pumping, get those immune cells traveling through the system, AND to get out of the buildings with such poor ventilation! While we were at our NH house, our NYC co-op, finished in 1970, has basement to roof…
In March 2020, I was shouting from the rooftops to my friends in NYC to NOT stay inside - to get up and outside, walk, get the blood pumping, get those immune cells traveling through the system, AND to get out of the buildings with such poor ventilation! While we were at our NH house, our NYC co-op, finished in 1970, has basement to roof air ducts linking every apartment’s bathroom and kitchen with 8”x10” openings. If you have a down vent smoker, your apartment will literally get a haze. I chose to block our vents and crack windows. Air ventilation is such a historic issue that the tenement building steam radiators were purposely required to OVER heat apartments, forcing residents to crack windows in winter for fresh air. Today, elderly in my over-heated building walk around in summer house dresses or shorts and sandals in January and keep their windows closed in their 78 degree NYC apartments. It’s all so unhealthy! Remember how SARS 1 spread in Hong Kong hotels and that Toronto hospital? Air vents from floor to floor, room to room. It was all such bad advice on so many levels.
In March 2020, I was shouting from the rooftops to my friends in NYC to NOT stay inside - to get up and outside, walk, get the blood pumping, get those immune cells traveling through the system, AND to get out of the buildings with such poor ventilation! While we were at our NH house, our NYC co-op, finished in 1970, has basement to roof air ducts linking every apartment’s bathroom and kitchen with 8”x10” openings. If you have a down vent smoker, your apartment will literally get a haze. I chose to block our vents and crack windows. Air ventilation is such a historic issue that the tenement building steam radiators were purposely required to OVER heat apartments, forcing residents to crack windows in winter for fresh air. Today, elderly in my over-heated building walk around in summer house dresses or shorts and sandals in January and keep their windows closed in their 78 degree NYC apartments. It’s all so unhealthy! Remember how SARS 1 spread in Hong Kong hotels and that Toronto hospital? Air vents from floor to floor, room to room. It was all such bad advice on so many levels.