This is how anything starts. First you have to get noticed by others who are aligned with your values. That helps you get funding, research support, and a network who you'll need.

Please don't pooh-pooh other people trying to make things happen. It costs you nothing to not post negative comments.

Sunlight is the biggest UV source and at the scales we’re talking, manmade disinfectants would not register

We had twins after having a singleton during covid. We invested in 4 big hepa air filters and placed one in each bedroom. I think it significantly reduced the amount of illnesses we faced in the first year if the twins life. Lesson learned for us.

> Even if there were no mortality or productivity benefits, you’d think cutting down on cold and flu would be sufficient motivation on its own.

You'd think that, but air-cleaning equipment that's not legally required is an avoidable expense. People getting sick, crippled, or even dying from things that aren't legally your fault doesn't appear on a company's balance sheets.

Given that, it's pretty obvious what a business that's out to save every dollar you can get away with will choose to do.

This sounds like a wonderfully deadly bio-weapon platform you're planning there. Maybe introduce some gene filter to target specific population groups..? The possibilities are endless!

Self-replicating vaccines? We already have those. They're called diseases.

1) There’s no way the public would buy in to this idea. 2) This seems like a serious violation of medical ethics. 3) If we already gave a well-engineered and safe vaccine, why not take that? Supply chain and immunization itself isn’t a practical choke point: it’s vaccine accuracy for things like flu, and vaccine misinformation for something like measles. But again, take the vaccine or don’t: for most illnesses and most scenarios, you’re only hurting yourself.

Hard to tell. They might have equally well found something helpful if it weren't for the incident.

Are you really under the impression that doing that makes you immune to the flu?