If I may turn this into a short, punchy statement:
We stopped cholera by cleaning the water we drink.
We will stop Covid by cleaning the air we breathe.
Slogan may need to be a big shorter for a T-shirt?
Feel free to make a design at one of the usual custom T-shirt shops!
Maybe "Clean water stopped cholera. Clean air stops COVID."
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I've been wanting to get involved with something like this in Vermont.
Suggestion/amendment: "Clean water stops" rather than "stopped" since people still die of cholera.
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Take Action Against COVID certainly has my blessing to develop this into a campaign. The slogan should be considered open-source, let a thousand T-shirts appear...
"Clean water stops cholera. Clean air stops Covid."
@vieve @neroden @DavidElfstrom
We take alteration requests & have produced different localized versions, even rebranding them to help out others' websites/campaigns.
We work in a collaborative way w/medical & STEM professionals (as much or as little as they have time for). We see a huge need to broadcast these ideas visually b/c our govts have never taken #covid19 campaigns seriously.
Plz drop us a DM if you'd like! We'd love guidance & suggestions for turning this slogan into a 💯 campaign.
Actually that should read "stops" for both, cholera being very much still present
@vieve @neroden @DavidElfstrom
I like this shirt idea 🙂
Is there a way to point to the specific clean air interventions without getting much wordier? A term for those three?
I’d want to emphasize that it’s a known problem with known solutions, not just a reiteration of “COVID is airborne”
@Pineywoozle many schools have spurned attempts to donate them
@Pineywoozle it's often a directive from the school board, effectively resulting in a blanket ban.
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly.
We will have to rid ourselves of the elite parasites that profit from unrestricted spread before we will be allowed to clean the air we breathe. Our reality is far more terrifying than any horror movie I've ever seen.
As a professional investor, I can state confidently that (with the possible exception of Pfizer and a couple of other pharma corps) the elite parasites are for the most part LOSING money due to unrestricted spread.
Delta's CEO demanded that isolation periods and masks be removed, got it, & promptly ran out of pilots & had to cancel flights.
This is sheer "madness" stuff, insanity, it isn't just corporate greed.
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It's ideological, and although I hate the 'economy' framing, no one is doing better even if you use that frame.
They are just reflexively opposed to any kind of collective effort, anything that might smell like caring for the masses, even if they get harmed in the process.
@mathew1927 @noyes @DavidElfstrom
I really think there's an opening to separate the smart business owners who care about profit, away from the ideological "crush the masses even if it hurts us" types.
Gotta assemble case studies like Apricot Tree Cafe and make business cases showing "less sick workers = more profit"
They seem to be doing pretty well to me:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/richest-one-percent-gained-trillions-in-wealth-2021.html
@noyes @DavidElfstrom Short-term thinking. This is almost entirely a bubble.
(There's also some monopolies, which do fine either way, but do *better* if people are healthy)
#HEPA filters and #CRboxes #CleanTheAir; #masks (#p100, #n95, etc) also clean the air (immediately before you breathe it).
The evidence says that enough filters + enough masks *will* end the pandemic. Ask Apricot Tree Cafe or Abrome Ed -- or see the Cambridge hospital study of HEPA filters.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.16.21263684v1.full.pdf
Is this a "silver bullet"? I wouldn't call it that given that it's more like an arsenal.
You have to build a WHOLE LOT of air filters, just like we had to build LOTS of water treatment plants.
Air filters for all buildings are actually cheaper than water treatment plants for everyone though.
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