@ThePeelPod asked @bernhardsson why high CO2 levels in your office are such a big deal: “I’m not a health nut. But one of the things I’ve been radicalized on is CO2 levels.
There’s a real relationship between CO2 levels, productivity, and cognitive performance.
And CO2 levels are usually way too high in offices and schools.
Normal air CO2 levels are 300-500 PPM. In offices it often hits 1,000 or 2,000.
Airplanes can get up to 2,500. You start getting brain damage at 5,000.
So I went and bought a bunch of CO2 monitors for the office. And I look at them every day. And I open windows anytime we get too high.
Durham County Department of Public Health have produced a great video demonstrating that covid and many other viruses are airborne. The video is less than two minutes long. An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! […]
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