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The Virus Lockdown has given us all a different view of living indoors. For some it has been a liberation from the endless social demands but for many the isolation has been difficult. It is therefore interesting to discover that a study by Velux, the window manufacturers, found that even before the lockdown 1 in 4 people spend some 90% of their day indoors.

However, the US Environmental Protection Agency believes that humidity, mould and inadequate temperatures can lead to pollution, so much so that the air inside can be 2 x 5 times more polluted than ‘fresh air’. It is believed that children spending extended periods indoors are more susceptible to asthma, allergies and breathing problems.

A more worrying aspect of indoor life comes from a BBC news report which recounts that the NSPCC have received an almost 20% rise in calls reporting child abuse in the first month of Lockdown. The metropolitan police also received 100 calls a day regarding domestic abuse which, according to the Office for National Statistics, results in ‘an estimated 2.4 million [1 in 4] adults experienced domestic abuse’.

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