Ventilation!
opening windows, running fans; applicable to the flu too!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/opinion/covid-flu-air-transmission.html
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Opinion | What We Know About Covid-19, the Flu and the Air We Breathe – The New York Times
January 30, 2022A perfect storm for container shipping | The Economist
October 2, 2021QT:{{
The spot price for sending such a box from Shanghai to New York, which in 2019 would have been around $2,500, is now nearer $15,000. Securing a late booking on the busiest route, from China to the west coast of America, could cost $20,000.
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Some observers think normality may return after Chinese new year next February. Peter Sand of bimco says disruptions could even take a year to unwind. Lars Jensen of Vespucci Maritime, an advisory firm, notes that a dockers’ strike on America’s west coast in 2015 caused similar disruption, albeit only in the region. It still took six months to unwind the backlog.
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https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/a-perfect-storm-for-container-shipping/21804500
Why Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers May Make Things Worse – The New York Times
August 29, 2021QT:{{”
To understand why screens often have little effect on protecting people from aerosol particles, it helps to think about exhaled breath like a plume of cigarette smoke, Dr. Marr said.
“One way to think about plastic barriers is that they are good for blocking things like spitballs but ineffective for things like cigarette smoke,” Dr. Marr said. “The smoke simply drifts around them, so they will give the person on the other side a little more time before being exposed to the smoke. Meanwhile, people on the same side with the smoker will be exposed to more smoke, since the barriers trap it on that side until it has a chance to mix throughout the space.” “}}
Another useful fact connected to this thread is that secondhand cigarette smoke is a good indicator of aerosol behavior
https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/Opinion-What-secondhand-smoke-tells-us-about-the-15794467.php viz: https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1430324404752318464
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/well/live/coronavirus-restaurants-classrooms-salons.html
Plastic has a problem; is chemical recycling the solution?
July 1, 2021https://cen.acs.org/environment/recycling/Plastic-problem-chemical-recycling-solution/97/i39
PET + polyethylene – 1 & 2 – are easiest to deal w/ mechanically rest are harder, so a chemical solution.
Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?
June 3, 2021worrisome for those committed to plastics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01143-3
The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics | The Economist
May 4, 2021QT:{{"
The first pillar of this new retail architecture is “social commerce”. This relies on three related technologies: live-streaming, short-form video and social-networking. The biggest live-streamer is Alibaba’s Taobao Live. In just 30 minutes of presales for Singles Day, China’s answer to Black Friday, it notched up $7.5bn-worth of sales, about as much as Amazon is thought to have sold in its “Prime Day” in October (which actually lasted 48 hours). In June Douyin set up its own shopping division, having earlier hosted many of its live-streams where the likes of Taobao teamed up with celebrity influencers to sell products. The video-app’s 600m daily users confer a valuable resource—their attention. In the autumn it made its proprietary debut on Singles Day."}}
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