00:00It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, we knew how to protect you, and we didn't do it.
00:06We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for, and we refuse to use it.
00:17And I shudder to think of where we will be in another five years of unmitigated infection and reinfection.
00:22But let me say on the topic of generational memory, that while I imagine no one in this room was alive in the time of John Snow or Ignace Hemelweiss, many of you fought the long and hard battle against indoor smoking.
00:35My only memory of that era, at almost 20 years old, is being confused as a child about the no smoking signs on planes.
00:41Who would do that? That's gross.
00:44My hope for this event and my belief in this community rests on the belief that we can and we must do that again.
00:50We can't recognize filtered air as a human right as intuitively as we do filtered water.
00:56We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary, tomorrow's children don't even know why we need it.
01:03We need the people who remember 2020, who are not like me, 14 in 2020, to be loud about the world that we were promised at the onset of the pandemic,
01:13one where we and our institutions promised each other that if we only got out of that desperate acute phase,
01:19we would do everything we could to protect our communities going forward.
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