Alas, not an issue here, where end-game climate change means that the main danger to having open-air polling places in October is heatstroke. Wife dropped off our ballots today and reported that the open air early voting/ballot dropoff in East Tucson was doing booming business.
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Excellent point. I know the guy that spearheaded this is based in Montana, and I’d been thinking of it from a very cold-climate centric attitude.
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How do you handle a cold (or wet) air environment? That kind of air exchange isn’t something a heating system can keep up with, we’d expect to see poll opening temperatures below or near freezing here by early november. Covid is apparently largely about ventilation, so in theory it seems functional, but practically, if it’s outside of a reasonable range of temperatures, say 50-80 degrees F, or if it’s raining a sizeable amount, what then?
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Poor kid.
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I’m not sure what you’re asking, but the proposed approach isn’t about heat or humidity. The blower door is basically a big fan we put into an opening (generally a door) to either pressurize or depressurize a building to increase air changes per hour, or ACH.
So if we use it up here (I’m in Maine) it might increase heating costs, but generally when we go to the polling station the door is open all day anyway.
I think in theory, in would definitely make the environment safer, especially for workers spending hours there as long as we’re mindful of directionality of flow. But as mentioned above, I’m not a medical or fluid dynamics expert.
And this is just proposed as a way to keep polling stations safer for the limited time they’re operating. Not sure I made that clear above. Hope this helps.
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I hope he’s like my nephew, just biding his time until he can be his own man and get out from under his racist/authoritarian/what-have-you history.
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Saw this coming…
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Goddamned evil monster.
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Reminder: Donnie, you can’t throw a hissy fit if other people politicize your kid if you politicize them yourself. Fair game.
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You’re going to increase the ACH, my point is that the increase is with new air that is not going to be 70 degrees. Here, or in Maine, it’s going to be something around freezing temperature air sucked in, rapidly lowering the temperature inside the building.
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And this is not particularly encouraging either. (Worth noting, this is more a collection of anecdotes than a rigorous study, but that is where we start.)
And this, not surprising but disappointing.
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Because they have no interest in doing so? And I’m not a fan of private interests doing so, honestly. If people are going to build alternatives to institutions like academic publishers, why not go the co-op route instead of the depending on the good will of the elite class route?
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I hear “Why won’t people who have aggressively prioritized their own personal enrichment over all else spend some of that fortune on the common people they don’t know or love out of the goodness of their own hearts and a deep sense of gratitude?”
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Well fuck:
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