It seems fairly unreasonable to suggest that it was a mistake to not or that it would be reasonable to have retrofitted all public buildings to have underfloor (sometimes underground) HVAC ducting added. Think about the typical large slab-on-grade grocery store, Target, Home Depot, Walmart, etc., which is the majority of the places I’ve had to go in the last two years.
Given where we are with COVID, that seems like it would have been a massively wasteful over-reaction.
> Think about the typical large slab-on-grade grocery store
You can raise the floor, just like you can drop the ceiling.
> that seems like it would have been a massively wasteful over-reaction
At least this person has some creative ideas for saving lives and actually evolving our society, so that we don't lose a million people to the next airborne virus, which I have little reason to believe won't happen next time.
Could we have built raised floors in all the grocery stores and big box stores while simultaneously serving the needs of a country in pandemic in two years?
Given where we are with COVID, that seems like it would have been a massively wasteful over-reaction.