Ending airborne disease like we ended waterborne disease

Water-borne illnesses are practically extinct in the developed world. This is a major triumph since these plagued our ancestors in all of human history. But what about airborne illness?

We know that it's possible to eradicate airborne illnesses. In fact, we did this accidentally during COVID. There used to be 4 major strains of influenza, but one of them went extinct during COVID because it couldn't spread during quarantine.

There's a new technology that aims to sterilize air called "far UV-C lamps". I went to a round-table with a few UV-C experts moderated by Patrick McKenzie , and these are my notes.

What is far UV-C?

How can they be used?

Questions I had

Downsides of Far UV-C lamps

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