Weeks. Tracking eta. The newest Tropical Storm strengths as it marches toward the United States. See the damage already left behind by this storm thats already killed over 100 people. And getting off the ground. Flying cars have been promised for nearly 100 years. Well take you inside the race to create a real viable option to drive into the sky. But first, we begin with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Its pretty apparent to everybody who is watching right now and counting the numbers and looking at the universe of outstanding votes that joe biden is on the brink. The time for tallying votes is winding down. The nation awaiting who will be in the white house for the next four years. If it takes a long time, thats good. It means were being methodical. Were checking the facts. Its like in carpentry. You measure twice and cut once. Comes down to five key states. For now, joe biden, like the rest of us is left to watch and wait. As slow as it goes, it can be numbing.
A century ago, a well-ventilated building was considered good medicine. But by the time Covid-19 arrived, our buildings could barely breathe. How did that happen? And how do we let the fresh air back in?
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The first way to fight a new virus would once have been opening the windows.
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A few years ago, when I still had confidence in our modern ability to fight viruses, I pored over a photo essay of the 1918 flu pandemic.
How quaint, I remember thinking, as I looked at people bundled up for outdoor classes and court and church. How primitive their technology, those nurses in gauze masks. How little did I know.
I felt secure, foolishly, in our 100 additional years of innovation. But it would soon become clear that our full-body hazmat suits and negative-pressure rooms and HEPA filters mattered little to Americans who couldn’t find N95 masks. In our quest for perfect solutions, we’d forgotten an extremely obvious and simple one: fresh air. A colleague joked, at one point, that things would have gone better in the pandemic if we still believed in miasma theory.