Covid is airborne - if we clean the air we stop the spread

What is Safe Inside?

Safe Inside is a self-certification scheme to help customers and patients find Covid safe places to access healthcare and other services and to actively promote those businesses that care about the health of their staff and customers.

Goals:

  1. Allow people who want to protect themselves from airborne pathogens, primarily SARS-COV-2, to easily find places they can access healthcare and other services.

  2. Promote Safe Inside places to the interested communities

  3. Inform and encourage organisations to adopt Safe Inside practices to reduce staff sickness and provide safe spaces for customers.

  4. Campaign for clean air policies and regulation

  5. Raise funds to provide casual flexible work to people who have had to stop working because of Long Covid or other disabilities

Our goal is not primarily to change the minds of people who don’t want to believe Covid is a problem, our main goal is simply to identify places that are taking positive steps and connect them with the Covid aware community.

Why does this matter?

  • Covid infection levels never reduced, we still have 3 to 5 major waves each year, the virus has evolved to become far more easily transmitted than the early variants.

  • Because we aren’t trying to control the spread of the virus it is mutating so fast that reinfection can happen within 5 to 6 weeks of a previous infection

  • 55% of infections are from people with no symptoms (who have no idea they have Covid)

  • 30% of people never develop symptoms

  • Most children don’t develop symptoms or show mild cold like symptoms

  • For most people, the risk from repeated Covid infections is long term and cumulative

  • Long Covid is a debilitating, life changing illness with no cure and currently not even any treatment. Anyone can develop Long Covid from any infection.

  • Risk from reinfection is cumulative, you may feel OK after 1 or 2 infections, every reinfection does more damage. Claims of immunity are not genuine.

  • Covid causes persistent inflammation that affects every organ in the body. Physical damage to the brain, vascular system and heart are most common but there is no part of the body that is safe from Covid.

  • Evidence of all the above have been found in studies looking at children and infants

  • Long term illness includes heart attack, stroke, early onset dementia, Type 1 diabetes, immune system dysregulation and increased risk of many cancers.

  • You haven’t been told any of this because it is bad for the economy.

  • Covid is airborne - if we clean the air we stop the spread.

Benefits for your business

  1. Less staff absence. Sick days are at unprecedented levels, the daily Mail wants you to believe this is because suddenly people on mass have decided they can’t be bothered to go to work. You know this is ridiculous. Your staff are getting sick all the time for the same reason everyone else is sick all the time, Covid is still spreading like mad, Covid is not a cold, it has almost endless long term health consequences. Multiple studies have shown even just running HEPA filters significantly reduces levels of infection (there are studies from Addenbrooks hospital and multiple schools)

  2. Attract new customers. You don’t know this market exists because at the moment people who need to avoid infection are removing themselves from normal day to day activities to whatever extent they can. There are 2m people with Long Covid in the UK, plus their families and this number is growing every day. At least 250,000 people with ME. Anyone who is immune compromised which includes anyone being treated for cancer or living on immune suppressants because of immune mediated chronic health conditions like Rheumatoid Arthritis. This list goes on. There is a massive unmet demand within this community for access to safe healthcare and other essential services. Safe Inside exists to actively promote organisations operating Safe Inside principles to this huge pool of customers.

  3. Make sure your services can be accessed by vulnerable people. It is easier to close our eyes but we all have to ask ourselves if we want to be part of a society that cares for everyone. Or not.