A new device from can detect COVID-19 in the air, which can help stop the spread of the virus.

Already, the research team is working on a device that could also identify influenza and RSV.

  • downpunxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is fantastic, the downside of course, if the general population being taught by their governments that COVID isn’t to be feared, but lived with, and most importantly “worked through”. The capitalist system doesn’t function without it’s workers, and the corporations don’t want anything disrupting their bottom line, including covid mitigations, which is why you see Right Wing nutjobs telling everyone that COVID is over, and there was nothing to fear in the first place, while in the span of 12 months over One Million Americans died. Corporations, aided by the Right Wing bigots, don’t want COVID air detectors anywhere, as they would invariably detect COVID. Reminds me of that movie where the king said to save arrows, and send in the infantry, because arrows cost money, and people cost nothing.

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      The capitalist system doesn’t function without it’s workers, and the corporations don’t want anything disrupting their bottom line, including covid mitigations, which is why you see Right Wing nutjobs telling

      good thing we have you, a left wing nutjob, to educate us.

      what is your proposed alternative? to stop the word indefinitely? we are already living with a viruses among us and this will be another one. we will do all we can to mitigate the risks, but it will never be zero. c’est la vie.

    • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      i’ll take “worked through” over “having my front door welded shut by the govt”

      • lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        118·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, everyone is acting like it’s over now but in reality we’re still incredibly vulnerable.

        Unprecedented global population means unprecedented opportunities for dangerous mutations, and easy global travel means it can spread faster than any time in history.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I know it was a joke, but honestly covid will be a concern for a long time so having this technology is yeah, actually good.