Measuring humidity is cheap. You only have to pay 2,86 € for the cheapest one on Amazon. Automated systems are more expensive but even a non-automated system could do the job with a bit on manual effort.
Effort-wise I think it’s less effort to do manual humidity control then to wear a surgical mask. My first experience with wearing a surgical mask for longer was to wear it 5 hours for a SlateStarCodex meetup I organized for the 8.3. Afterwards, I had a headache and didn’t wear my masks in a meeting the next day even through I’m a well-prepared rationalist who brought his masks a year in advance.
Comparing it to mask wearing however misses the point. It’s quite likely that we want to do multiple interventions to keep down infection rates.
Measuring humidity is cheap. You only have to pay 2,86 € for the cheapest one on Amazon. Automated systems are more expensive but even a non-automated system could do the job with a bit on manual effort.
Effort-wise I think it’s less effort to do manual humidity control then to wear a surgical mask. My first experience with wearing a surgical mask for longer was to wear it 5 hours for a SlateStarCodex meetup I organized for the 8.3. Afterwards, I had a headache and didn’t wear my masks in a meeting the next day even through I’m a well-prepared rationalist who brought his masks a year in advance.
Comparing it to mask wearing however misses the point. It’s quite likely that we want to do multiple interventions to keep down infection rates.