I'm still confused why Big HVAC didn't squeeze 100 billion out of Congress to absolutely ventilate the shit out of every classroom in America.
The feds sent to Iowa some $95 million in COVID relief funds with some suggestions, one of which was that it might well be used to improve classroom air quality. The fucking GOP IA Gov, Kim Reynolds, declined to accept the funding. www.weareiowa.com/article/news...
Iowa declined $95,029,161 in federal funding for the "Emergency Infections ELC Reopening Schools."
Big HVAC is overwhelmingly ultra right wing so that hope went out the window with Trump
My family’s version of that was my MIL saying “who cares, we all share germs. We’re family.” Now I’ve been sick for a week when I could have been doing things I enjoy with my week off.
There isn’t really a big HVAC. Most companies are smaller, local concerns. And the manufacturing is overseas. The supply chain was totally facocked.
Ruining your day with memories, but "give out money to companies with no fraud checking"* and "let your children literally steal PPE from state governments and resell it" weren't the actions of a normal government. * 1/6 of the money is known to have been grifted. Possibly 1/3.
Nobody wants to work anymore.
in a lot of districts they did get money for this but either spent it badly or didn't realize other constraints. My school got HVAC systems but not the electrical system to run the HVAC.
Probably because most HVAC companies are locally owned family firms and overwhelmingly Republican
Perhaps the HVAC industry isn't consolidated enough to be considered "big?" What puzzles me is why the pharma industry didn't lobby this $hit out of congress to get ppe into the hands of every person from here to the end of time
I know you're familiar with the issues, but I think this is actually a great point that leads to a disgraceful failure of infrastructure funding for schools around the country. Just one example but one reads stories like this all of the time.
Students and Educators in Idaho Show Us What It’s Like When a State Fails to Fund School Repairs