I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 491 - 489: Health Wristband

After handing over the medical equipment to the doctor, Chen Xin temporarily put aside his concerns about the matter.

After all, even if the state dispatched a medical team to Lucia, it would take time for them to reach Lucia. The Haizhu was designed by Chen Xin, and he was fairly familiar with its performance; for such a large airship, a flight speed of 80 km/h was already considered fast.

However, although he set aside his focus on this matter, Chen Xin was still thinking about related issues.

In the shelter, Chen Xin sat on the sofa in the living room, in front of him a structural projection of a domed ground shelter currently being built by the state in the disaster area.

"Blocking external sources of infection is easy; by improving the air filtration system, we can achieve that. But the human body carrying viruses..." Chen Xin was considering how the shelter could withstand viruses.

The transmission through air, water sources, or other substances was easy to solve, but if the human body did not show symptoms yet carried the virus, it would be difficult to detect and discover.

If it were a small private shelter like the one Chen Xin was currently living in, it would be fine; after all, with fewer people, the health status of everyone could be monitored in real-time.

But for those shelters with thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, real-time monitoring of each individual’s health status was unrealistic.

Even if detection equipment was installed at the entrances and exits of the shelter, to strictly check all personnel entering and leaving, if an infected person had not yet shown symptoms and the virus was in the incubation period in his body, it would be difficult to detect in the absence of symptoms. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

It’s like a restaurant with an electronic temperature-sensing instrument installed at the entrance; only people with elevated body temperatures would trigger an alarm, prompting the staff to stop them from entering.

But if a person’s body temperature is normal, yet the virus is already lurking in their body, the instrument would not detect that they have a virus in such a situation.

The Three-Record Device created by Chen Xin had a similar effect; it could only detect various health data from a person, making it easy to identify any deviations from the norm and carry out treatment accordingly.

So regarding this issue, Chen Xin felt quite troubled.

After all, the issue at hand was dealing with an ancient virus; if it turned out to be highly contagious, infecting one person could endanger the entire shelter, and potentially allow it to spread between shelters, which would lead to very serious consequences.

"What should be done about this?" Chen Xin felt extremely perplexed and couldn’t help but frown.

"What are you doing here frowning by yourself?" Mo Qingyan’s voice came from behind Chen Xin. She sat down next to him on the sofa, showing concern for his worried expression.

"I’m thinking about how to improve the shelter," Chen Xin looked at Mo Qingyan and rubbed his somewhat stiff face, leaning back against the couch.

Listening to Chen Xin, Mo Qingyan grew somewhat curious and asked, "What’s wrong with the shelter? It looks fine."

"It does look fine, but there are still some shortcomings," Chen Xin explained to Mo Qingyan, maybe feeling that talking to her would help clear his thoughts. He pointed to the projection before him and said, "Didn’t I go to Lucia earlier? They are dealing with an ancient virus spreading over there, and the situation is quite serious. Although it doesn’t affect us for the time being, it’s better to be prepared. So I’m thinking about how to improve the shelter’s protective measures to prevent the spread of the virus."

Feeling Chen Xin’s thoughts, Mo Qingyan raised an eyebrow, "But isn’t it difficult to solely rely on the shelter’s protection to stop the virus spread? As long as there is personnel movement, there would still be channels for virus transmission.

Unless you completely seal the shelter off from external contact, and even when people go out they put on full protective gear, only then might you avoid infection, but it’s still not absolutely foolproof."

Because her sister is in the medical field, and due to a prior outbreak in the Flame Country before the meteor impact, Mo Qingyan was somewhat knowledgeable about these matters and quickly felt Chen Xin’s ideas were implausible.

"Yes, that’s exactly why I’m worrying about this," Chen Xin nodded; that was indeed his dilemma, "We can’t restrict people from leaving the shelter, and any movement would inevitably provide a pathway for the virus to spread.

My initial plan was to install detection equipment at every entrance of the shelters, but that only identifies infected people who are symptomatic, not those in the incubation period. It still wouldn’t prevent virus transmission, and installing monitoring devices inside the shelter to monitor everyone’s health in real-time isn’t realistic, which is why I feel it’s such a thorny problem!"

Hearing Chen Xin’s words, Mo Qingyan asked curiously, "Ah Xin, aren’t you overthinking it a bit? Besides, monitoring everyone’s health should be easy with detection devices, right?"

"Easy?" Chen Xin looked at Mo Qingyan, not understanding why she said that.

"Wait a moment!" Mo Qingyan said and then hurried back to her room. She quickly returned with something in hand and said to Chen Xin, "Ah Xin, look at this, it’s a health band I bought before that can monitor one’s health status in real-time, though it’s currently unusable without an internet connection.

What you meant by not being able to monitor everyone’s health status is that it’s hard to cover the entire shelter with devices to monitor everyone in real-time, right?

That would indeed be difficult, but with this, there would be no problem! You just need to ensure everyone has one, it can monitor their health status at any time, and if anyone’s health suddenly changes, send an alert to the medical or management departments, wouldn’t that work?"

Looking at the health band Mo Qingyan handed over, Chen Xin suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

He indeed was overthinking it; real-time monitoring of every individual in the shelter was certainly unrealistic, but equipping everyone with a health band that monitors health status at any time was quite feasible.

As long as everyone wears a health band that can detect health status, and it can signal any health issues timely, that indeed represents another form of real-time health monitoring for everyone.

While it’s not completely foolproof against virus spread, it ensures any illness will be detected, minimizing potential virus damage.

Thinking about this, Chen Xin jumped up excitedly from the couch, grabbed Mo Qingyan’s face, and gave her a kiss. He beamed, "Qingyan, you really helped me a lot! With this, my biggest worry is resolved!"

Mo Qingyan was taken aback by Chen Xin’s sudden action, but seeing his joyful expression, she also felt happy for him.