In collaboration with AirSpotHealth, I will be giving away a few CO2 monitors over the next few weeks. For every giveaway, there will be 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.
How would you use your AirSpot to advocate for clean air in a health, education, work or other setting?
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 first two winners - one from X and one person that comments here - will be drawn this Sunday at midnight (GMT +5). Please let me know if you have any questions and good luck!
I would take pictures of the readings and post on social media about whether they indicate sufficient or insufficient ventilation. If possible, I will include tips on how ventilation could be improved in that space!
I would use it log air quality for the places I go in the Covid CO2 Tracker (https://www.co2trackers.com/) to help build up a better understanding of the air quality in my area.
Hi Ethan! I would use it to see what it’s like in the cars I have to ride in for doctors appointments. It would also be to bring to all my doctor’s appointments, labs, and therapies. I’d share it with my Mom who has COPD but thinks she’s safe everywhere. I’d LOVE to share it with the medical staff who don’t wear masks when they treat me. That would be amazing! And, I’d love to show people on my social media what it’s really like and why it’s so important to mask! Thanks for the opportunity! Please take care everyone!!!
I’d do what I do already with my much more bulky CO2 reader: I take it with me on trains and post about CO2 readings on social media targeting the general public but also the train subculture to influence them to think about air exchange in trains. Many work in trains/on trains/on train procurement, so I see leverage there.
With this much smaller device I could do that also for shorter trips with buses, tramways, the metro and the S-Bahn for which my bulky reader is too big to carry.
I’d do the same with doctors offices/waiting rooms, as I’m already supplying data/experience reports about air safety to the safe air docs initiative in Germany that is collecting what the name says.
In short: it would allow me to extend what I do already for safer air
Also it would give me personally more relief from being stressed about being in places
I’d lend it to interested friends and family for a week each, asking them to take it with them and note where they were for high readings - would then sit down with them at the end of the week and go through the data. The more people I love I can get on board with caring about air quality and their health the better!
Our school teacher has been amazing seeking cross ventilation for the benefit of the class and the school community. It would be amazing for a School Champion to be able to use an AirSpot, day-to-day, to learn more and increase own knowledge for the greater good.
I would set the alarm to audible and then, when it went off, explain what it was and why it alarmed. I would help educate people on clean air benefits!
I’d use this to monitor Air Quality for all my appointments, such as haircuts, brow-tinting and dental work, spreading the word through all my Covid-conscious networks.
I’d also use it to monitor air quality when lecturing and teaching at my University, especially in the smaller rooms where doors are especially designed to be difficult to wedge open.
Love this! One feature that AirSpot has is that you can change the settings to have an alarm / vibration at up to 10 different CO2 levels. You can change the number of repeats (alarm/vibrate), so you can recognise the level it has got to without having to view it.
I would take this to all of my medical appointments and teach my doctors and physio about air quality and infection risk. None of them mask. Maybe I can at least convince them to clean the air with filters. A small device like this would be so handy as a teaching tool.
One of my biggest pet peeves is healthcare offices not masking - I would bring this to every visit (and lend it to my senior mother for all her visits) to show staff; this monitor is conveniently small and designed clearly enough to take anywhere to help educate others on the criticalness of air filtration and ventilation!
I go in for IVs at the cancer center twice a week. I am the only person who wears a respirator. I do not have a way to measure the air quality and I have seen the vents and they are dirty and I know they have not upgraded the air. The immuno compromised and others with cancer are amongst the most at risk for Covid and other airborne diseases and yet in my state, we are not protected much like other places. My blue sky account is over 25,000 people, my Facebook is almost 8000 followers and my Twitter is about 17 and I have an email list that can reach up to 30,000 people.
I would share updates, reaching out to these people as well as sending press releases to my national and state base media with information about the air filtration standards for indoor facilities and include photos of the air quality in the spaces whenever I am in both the Ivey center for cancer as well as my multiple other doctors appointments and anywhere else in the community. I would also send these to the doctors that I work with as I work 20 hours a month for providers who are advocating. I also work among legislators and would send it to the Labor cochairs showing them that the healthcare providers who are already at high risk of long Covid and many of which are already disabled or even more at risk because of the air quality. Additionally, I would reach out to the state National nurses union with information about the air quality as they have multiple organizers and their safety matters and to date the NNU has not advocated as much on this issue in my state so they’ve done some great work nationally..
I would also share the information in the patient groups that are within my state so that other patients would have awareness is and perhaps create a petition for a focus to sign on asking for the upgraded ventilation and to stop putting healthcare providers in the community at risk. Thank you for giving me the chance. I really wanted a monitor, but I cannot afford one. My community has been providing for me for the most part. I have long Covid and multiple other conditions of course that came with that as well as a chronic cancer.
