We shouldn’t be touching their air filters and picking up all of the airborne contaminants that they’ve been breathing out.
It can be really difficult living with roommates. I’m sure that the same thing can be true for living with your family members, but at least you can be blunt when it’s your own kin driving you wild. When you’re sharing a house with other grown adults, it’s a much more sensitive situation if something isn’t going right. That’s why, I’m trying to keep my mouth shut while slowly going completely insane in my own household right now. A few months ago, I moved in with my best friend as my newest roommate. We had never lived together before, and I thought that it would be easy breezy cohabitating in one place. However, I was mistaken. Shortly after we moved in together, she started seeing somebody new and bringing him over all the time. That would be fine, except he happens to be a well-known heating, cooling, and ventilation specialist in the area. Normally, this would be a great perk for our central heating and cooling system and I would appreciate the air quality expertise, but right now I’m unhappy with his social occupation. In this current viral environment, we’re supposed to be limiting our human contact. That means, we shouldn’t be wandering into random people’s houses to fix their central heating and cooling systems. We shouldn’t be touching their air filters and picking up all of the airborne contaminants that they’ve been breathing out. We shouldn’t be putting our hands on thermostats where other grimy fingers have been. Following this logic, we definitely shouldn’t be sending a busy heating and cooling technician out into the infected world and then bringing him back into our clean house every day. I’m terribly upset over this HVAC intruder in our place, and I’m waiting for the day that we’re all sick.