NYTs: “Why opening windows is key to reopening schools”

[Anonymous]

Fascinating engineering analysis. It also show why 6 feet of distance is important - more kids would get infected in a given space & concentrations of the virus would be higher.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/26/science/reopen-schools-safety-ventilation.html

[Anonymous]

It's a bummer that my classroom has no windows that open.

[Anonymous]

The key to reopening schools is reopening them.

[Anonymous]

That only works where you either have windows or windows open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a bummer that my classroom has no windows that open.

Relatively inexpensive air filters still work in your classroom.

[Anonymous]

I think air purifiers must work too. Dentists are using them in office bldgs whose windows don’t open

[Anonymous]

My classroom windows open two inches, and I’m in a a better position than a lot of other teachers. This isn’t the simple solution people think it is.

[Anonymous]

We got a brand new school building 5 years ago and none of the windows open. D’oh!

[Anonymous]

Air filters, people. We have the technology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My classroom windows open two inches, and I’m in a a better position than a lot of other teachers. This isn’t the simple solution people think it is.

I haven't run across a single report that discussed how far a window should open, and aside from that, we have portable filtration technology. This is just teachers imagining impossibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating engineering analysis. It also show why 6 feet of distance is important - more kids would get infected in a given space & concentrations of the virus would be higher.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/26/science/reopen-schools-safety-ventilation.html

Notice how, when the fan is blowing into the room, the infected student and the teacher are breathing highly contaminated air, but the rest of the students are fine? Teachers are so screwed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating engineering analysis. It also show why 6 feet of distance is important - more kids would get infected in a given space & concentrations of the virus would be higher.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/26/science/reopen-schools-safety-ventilation.html

Notice how, when the fan is blowing into the room, the infected student and the teacher are breathing highly contaminated air, but the rest of the students are fine? Teachers are so screwed!

That's silly. It's only because the sick student they used sat in the front by the window. If the sick student was in the back corner, the whole thing would look different

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating engineering analysis. It also show why 6 feet of distance is important - more kids would get infected in a given space & concentrations of the virus would be higher.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/26/science/reopen-schools-safety-ventilation.html

Notice how, when the fan is blowing into the room, the infected student and the teacher are breathing highly contaminated air, but the rest of the students are fine? Teachers are so screwed!

That's silly. It's only because the sick student they used sat in the front by the window. If the sick student was in the back corner, the whole thing would look different

Well, you don’t know where the infected kid will be. That’s the risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got a brand new school building 5 years ago and none of the windows open. D’oh!

That’s utterly ridiculous. Why have windows that don’t open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The key to reopening schools is reopening them.

The key to re-opening is to open them SAFELY. Otherwise, we will need to shut down schools again.