In collaboration with AirSpotHealth, we have already given away four monitors over the past couple of weeks. Now we are giving away two more! You can find the thread to the previous giveaways here:
Now, it’s time for the next giveaway, and there are two ways to enter - one is to reply to my post on X (you can find my profile here: https://x.com/safe_breathe) and the second is to comment your reply to the question below on this forum.
When did you first realize how important indoor air quality is?
I am very thankful to the wonderful team at AirSpotHealth for giving me this opportunity to give something back to the community. This is a fantastic monitor, and you can find my full thoughts below:
The two winners for this giveaway - one from X and one person that comments here - will be drawn on Sunday the 23rd at midnight (GMT +5). Please let me and @JordanAirSpot know if you have any questions (feel free to tag either of us) and good luck!
Everywhere I go from social activities to teacher meetings, I would be quite ostentatious about checking air quality. I would then comment about the ramifications of not doing something about air quality.
About half a year ago, after a conversation with a senior scientist at a university in Germany who studies air pollution and the effects of global warming
I first realized how important air quality was after the onset of the pandemic and hearing the research my partner at the time found on how vital clean air was and the role clean air and ventilation played during the 1918 Flu pandemic.
I first learned about indoor air quality importance in the mid-80s when I heard about clean rooms out at the Space Center (KSC) from my friends’ engineer parents and my engineer softball coach who all worked out there.
I first started paying attention to air quality after my wife got long covid. Being aware of air flow allows us to make rational choices on how to behave.
Since the pandemic, I have become aware of how important indoor air quality is. I have read studies that show that good air quality not only reduces infections, but also improves concentration, reaction speed, and mood.
ive always known tbh. i have allergies and asthma so doctors have stressed the importance my entire life, and ive always been borderline fanatical during my worst seasons or health issues, but i started taking it MUCH more seriously on a consistent basis after my house got hit with covid in 2023. it made me (and my dog) MUCH more sensitive to even minor fluctuations. we now keep a levoit smart filter running in our bedroom at all times and have seen a HUGE improvement which just makes me want to learn more tbh, bc i’m still learning about the nuances of air quality and what specifically impacts us the most and it’s SUPER interesting to figure out what triggers reactions and spikes the aqi!!
2 years ago I started to work for a company which is selling domestic ventilation. I switched flat and ironically for the first time had my own domestic ventilation - from my company.
But one year before I read, that air quality = sleeping quality. It is true!
Air quality is key.
I was about 4 oder 5 years, when my father smoked in the car on our holidaytour. I hatet smoke every minute. I later avoided bars until they became smoke-free.
As a MEcfs-Patient Clean Air now is a question of life-protection, pure survival. Not Easy.
I always knew air quality was important, particulates, ozone, but it became markedly more important when COVID started as another layer for avoidance and protection.
When I was a kid, we used to visit people in the Kentucky hills. They used coal fires to heat. I got a first hand experience of how different their air was.
I’ve been fighting long COVID for
Three and a half years,
Self advocacy has taught me that
our air is not as safe as it appears.
The virus is airborne
And protection is a must,
So I wear a respirator mask like n95,
The only ones I trust.
We have air purifiers in the house,
But an air monitor would mean
That I could feel safer to go out,
And in public places be seen.
As anybody with
common sense knows,
It’s better to breathe safer air
through your nose!
It began to dawn on me covid was airborne after seeing some sketches of a quarrantine hotel where it showed infected rooms as orange dots and how it was slowly growing in a cluster around it with no contact with anyone else. The penny fully dropped after a choir group practically all became ill after a session together.
in 2020, while trying to understand how Covid spread, this has changed my life, for the best, even if sometimes it is very hard to deal with the society denial. I use an Aranet but I really would like to test an AirSpot which seems more suitable for everyday life
I first realised the importance of indoor air quality when a friend in medical research let me know SARS-CoV-2 was beginning to spread in late 2019. Indoor air quality remains a critical priority for my family, as my partner has been disabled by Long Covid since 2022, and I am prone to lung infections and complications from respiratory illnesses. Being able to monitor indoor air quality is an added safety precaution, and it gives us opportunities to make informed decisions (like opening a window, or asking to wait outside until being called in for medical appointments). By taking an air monitor into a hospital setting, I was able to show a nurse why I was concerned about ventilation - and highlight the data to support it. I’d love to have an AirSpot because they’re portable and sleek, unlike some of the bulky monitors! Very glad products like this exist.
