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> but with COVID in the rear-view mirror for the vaccinated, I'm not sure it's a major concern.

Your info needs updating. The vaccines wane, and breakthroughs aren’t harmless.

Swedish study found efficacy decline basically to nothing at 7 months and severe disease efficacy did too: https://mobile.twitter.com/x2IndSpeculator/status/1454126453...

Separate study found no reduction in risk of long covid in the event of a breakthrough: https://mobile.twitter.com/ahandvanish/status/14534083120667...




Covid is not going away. Get your vaccine and move on with your life. In another year nobody will even remember the damn thing (at least for most places… some don’t seem to want to let this go).

Designing buildings around 1.5 years of isolation because of covid is silly. We will never react to a future pandemic this way again. History will consider this whole mess as one of the most disastrous public health policies ever created and people trying it again will be laughed out of the room.

That being said… designing rooms with no windows is just awful. Bathrooms and stuff, sure. But primary living spaces like bedrooms or living rooms? That is a ticket for depression!




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