Covid 19 In A Deep Breath

Back in my Stockton College days when I was going for my teaching degree, I would ask the students I taught in the classes in the Atlantic City, Pleasantville, Egg Harbor and Absecon school systems a simple question, a simple riddle; “What 3 things do you need when you land on a desert island in the middle of the ocean?”

All of the students got the first 2 items right but they were perplexed by the 3rd. They would say food and water. I explained to them they could survive for several days without food or water. They could only survive a few minutes without “Air.” Air is the 3rd. answer but it should be the 1st. Islands need air and everywhere you go on this planet you need air immediately or you are going to have a bad day.

Side Note: I decided against becoming a teacher. I looked for safer work environments like walking through minefields and stepping into nuclear power plants during meltdowns.

Today we are living with an invisible enemy that attacks the very air we breath. It can not be defeated with conventional weapons. You can not kill a virus. With luck you can contain or control it.

For over 30 years my son and I have been kicking around ideas on how to invent, design, manufacture, market and distribute a breathing device for athletes and people who exercise when they walk or jog. The natural air outside has too many contaminates.

I personally love to run but I’m going nowhere fast with my inventions and ideas because I have no money. The personal breathing device we have in mind has to be small, light weight and be able to change bad air into the right balance of oxygen, nitrogen and purified good air to remove unwanted particles. (Covid 19 is an unwanted particle.)

I spoke with a representative from the Inogen oxygenator company. The device or machine is now light weight but it cost over a thousand dollars. I was thinking more along the lines of creating one that cost $19.00 that you can attach to your belt next to your water bottle when you run. Who would have ever thought that we would be paying over $1.00 for one of the most abundant commodities found in nature? Water.

Trust me. Not only old people will need oxygen devices to survive. You will be paying more money in the future for air than what you pay for water now. I have known that simple fact since I was a little child and I wanted to get in on the ground floor when breathable air was being developed and manufactured. It is one of those logical conclusions of the human condition. People need air to breath. You will expire quickly if not sooner without it. People will be willing to pay a fortune to have it when it becomes too contaminated and dangerous to breath.

Cities like Wuhan and Los Angeles need a clean air product invented today to combat air pollutants and viral attacks. Biological and chemical attacks are plausible. Places like the moon and Mars need such air devices so we can continue our work out there. Right now we have to bring our own air supply. (I feel confident that we will be able to manufacture breathable clean air from the ground water found at those locations.)

Our very survival as a species might hinge on our ability to create new personal air devices at a reasonable cost for the masses. (masks not included.) This is simply some Food for thought, air for the people, air for survival while we last. Take a deep breath. Enjoy it while you can.

Have a wonderful day everyone.

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