Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors?
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
CO comes from incomplete combustion and you’d usually only have detectors for it around gas heaters, generators, stuff like that. Maybe you meant carbon dioxide (CO2). I don’t remember ever seeing one around a voting booth. I’d consider them a good idea though, not because CO2 poisoning is a serious concern per se, but because high CO2 means that you’re breathing air that other people exhaled, increasing your exposure to airborne pathogens.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
CO2 is a non-issue in open places with people around. The one gas our bodies detects well is CO2. If there’s even a tiny percentage higher than background, people are going to quickly notice.
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
In indoor crowded spaces, CO2 is often 2000 ppm or higher (background is now around 450). We might notice but just deal with it. In the past that meant getting sleepy at a lecture or that sort of thing, but today I’d consider it risky. I still wear an N95 mask whenever I’m in a public indoor space.