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Legionnaires' Disease
and public places
On
Sunday when I was looking around the church building, I looked up. I discovered
that “You shouldn’t look up in Church”.
No
– No – nothing to do with God or Angels.
It was everything to do with the way things looked.
I
often look around in the church I am attending on any given Sunday. I look for
water stains, and maintenance problems. It is the “old Pastoral mind set” wondering
what the Board of the Church is like and how much they care about the physical.
Often
there are old water marks on the ceiling that are left from the time that the
church has had major problems with its building.
But
Sunday was different in that church. When I looked up I saw that the plastered
ceiling was super dark and dirty around the air vents. These air vents blow down the cool air in the
summer and the warm air in the winter.
And apparently the air coming from the air vents since 1980 is kind of
dirty.
Mind
you like any heating and cooling system it has been sucking up the used air
from people sitting below each week… and then heating it… and reusing it to warm
up or cool the dear Saints below.
That
used air being picked up and then sprayed down is not clean.
Now
I am not the Howard Hughes kind of guy that worries about the cleanliness of
people around me, then makes me isolate myself in a sealed environment to avoid
germs.
BUT
and it is a BIG BUT… for the last few weeks there has been a huge amount of
information about the Legionnaires’ Disease that has killed a number of people
in Quebec first and now it has been reported in Ontario as well. Actually the reports of this disease has also
being released from an outbreak in Europe in June 2012.
Once
you start reading about this stuff and these bacteria you can see Howard Hughes
wasn’t that nutso after all.
These
“bugs” are in the air all the time –
everywhere. They have been for a long time. The “bugs” that cause the Legionnaires’
Disease apparently were in the air handling system in large hotels… the air
conditioning and air heating vents.
When
I read over the Symptoms
Found for the Legionnaires’ Disease I started to look up more and more.
For
a while this church had hand cleansing stations at each door… but that has now
gone away.
When
I watched a couple of old men using the urinals and then walking out to the church
service… without washing their hands… the hand shaking was less appealing when
it came around.
BUT
I can shake the hands of someone, then go wash right afterwards. Right?
(More
fun yet – is to wash your hands just before hand shaking time and then don’t
dry your hands completely… and watch the look of people’s faces when they hit
your wet hand with their dry one! Too Funny!!!)
The
fact that the church does have old people sitting in it that could be susceptible
to these kinds of atypical pneumonia raises my concerns about this kind of air handling
system!
All
the used air that is down below is sucked up to the vents and then
redistributed. All the air breathed out,
all the burps, all the farts, all the B.O., all the perfume and anything else
that it can pick up it will… then that stuff lays in the pipes and the crevices
of the system. Then it incubates and grows
as the conditions are right… and “Legionnaires” breath it in!!! Oh boy!
I
am a Howard Hughes type after all. This morning I awoke with a sniffle and had
to blow my nose! Was that a cough that I just felt coming on?
Hokey
Mokey… I am old enough now to have breathed in buckets of bad and very ugly
used air!
My
heart goes out to the Legionnaires and the people that have lost loved ones to
this disease… to the pneumonia that they were taken down by. Nothing funny about this at all.
So
next time you are in church… look around and take a look at the condition of
the air vents. Are they dirty? How much
of the air have your breathed in? Sorry –
oh boy. Then there is the coffee shops, the Mall, and the Restaurants… oh boy –
oh boy.
Murray
Lincoln
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