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Following those who have experience w/ chronic illness, those who are keeping up with the literature, and those sacrificing to keep us all safe; wearing P100 respiratory PPE, pursuing personal zero SARS-CoV-2

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jonathanmatthews, to random
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Would anyone care to recommend a CO2 monitor I can prop up next to my desk to remind me when to ventilate?

Bonus marks if it's both powered and portable, so I can occasionally take it to meetings and opt out when things get too muggy. I don't care about recording numbers over time. UK purchase.

Q: it is I want to monitor, both for air quality and as a proxy for the fact that , right??

croissant, to random
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🌟️ Some of us just cannot afford to pretend that the pandemic is over.

currentbias, to random
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Losing my mind that this is in a 2013 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene:

"The growing threat of an influenza pandemic presents a unique challenge to healthcare workers, emergency responders, and the civilian population. [OSHA] recommends [NIOSH]-approved respirators to provide protection against infectious airborne viruses in various workplace settings."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15459624.2013.818228

currentbias, to random
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"Who said what?"
"Covid is airborne."
"But who said it?
"Yeah, the WHO said it."
"The band?"
"No, the world health organization."
"The world has a health organization?"
"I guess not."

PacificNic, to random
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I just watched someone on YouTube explain that they're pulling back from their usual content because their central nervous system is going haywire and they don't know what's wrong.

I mean, it's not always COVID, but it seems like I've seen too many of these kinds of videos lately.

olireiv, to random
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Since it is trending in Argentina and elsewhere in the world, a simple observation:
"Humans are the main host reservoir for dengue, but a meta-analysis by Gwee et al., considers how different animals may be involved in maintaining the virus in an enzootic cycle [52]. The results of the meta-analysis showed that dengue virus is present in 10.1% of bats, 34.1% of pigs and 27.3% of non-human primates."

Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771424000107#bb0260
&
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771421000069

katha1970, to mecfs German
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To all those who have literally “lost” their life due to suffering from a debilitating chronic illness:

Here is a song I wrote for my family -

“Is this really life?”

Maybe it resonates with some of you, too.

Feel free to share with whoever it may do well 💚

https://youtu.be/KR2p9NlWrqI?si=vF_0sz2Mg7vCjBHO

#MECFS #LongCovid #ChronicMigraines #ChronicPain #NEISvoid

johnzajac, to random
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If you really want to understand capitalism, all you need to know is that the prize for winning capitalism is...escaping it.

meganL, to random
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I have been referred for an endoscopy, which will require not having a mask on...in a facility that no longer requires masks and in which even most of the medical personnel no longer wear masks.

My choice is to take the chance of not catching cancer early by scoping for things, but possibly get COVID, or be able to stay away from COVID, but possibly die early of a detectable, preventable cancer.

The fact that so many people in healthcare think this is fine is 🤯

exador23, to H5N1
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ruh roh.

A Texas dairy worker has tested positive for the avian flu, marking the first identified human case of an illness in the U.S. that has sickened cattle across several states over the past few weeks.

The infection, only the second human case of H5N1 ever recorded in the country, is worrying public health experts who for decades have cautioned that avian flu could pose a serious threat.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/01/first-human-avian-flu-case-texas-00149949

“Every single time is a little bit of Russian roulette,” said veteran public health expert Ashish Jha, who led the Biden administration’s Covid-19 response. “You play that game long enough and one of these times it will become fit to spread among humans.”

mycorrhiza,
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@exador23 Calling Ashish Jha a "veteran public health expert" is like calling an arsonist a "veteran firefighter". If there's an avian flu pandemic, the Biden regime's catastrophic failures on the ongoing covid-19 pandemic will ensure that there's no chance of containing it or mounting any sort of coherent public health response. The CDC has destroyed its own credibility in its ongoing efforts to normalize mass death and disability from unchecked spread of SARS-CoV-2.

pseudonym, to random
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Gentle request.

Please don't drop fake stuff for the lols for April fools.

We all have enough mental bandwidth consumed filtering out active disinformation and innocent mistakes to add to the burden. In general they aren't funny and degrade many folks online experience.

Thanks for listening.

mo you know

Larhanya, to Mycology
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Okay, Mastodon! I have a mystery for you. Can anyone tell me what exactly is growing out of the path to my backyard? If it helps, I live in , which is in , about 620.1 km / 385.31 mi north of Minneapolis.

(Sorry, no alt text since I don't know how to describe what I'm looking at.)

Please boost! Hopefully someone knows what this is (and how to get rid of it.) :boost_ok:

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Geoffberner, to politics
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Don't worry. They've got the same plan for Avian Flu as they had for Covid. And you think that worked. So you're golden.

TalktoBeverley, to random
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https://www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid-19-does-to-the-body-fourth?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

radicalcommunalcare, to herbalism
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"The book focuses on state repression, police violence, prisons, the border regime, genocide, occupation and war while recognising there are millions more other forms of state violence shaping people’s lives and bodies. From herbal care for handcuff injuries to healing from incarceration, the book looks at herbal solidarity in practice, with examples from around the world. Tools are shared for herbal medic responses at demonstrations, protests and uprisings to practising herbalism in prison, to herbal support for nightmares, panic attacks and other expressions of distress and trauma."

https://solidarityapothecary.org/new-herbalism-and-state-violence-book/

Can be ordered here, if you live in the Uk and a few other countries: https://www.activedistributionshop.org/product/herbalism-and-state-violence/

douglaspynn, to random
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"Canada has pivoted away from natural birth and shifted entirely to immigration for growth. Virtually all growth (97.6%) was due to international migration. Only a sliver—the remaining 2.4% growth was due to natural increases (births outpacing deaths). "

https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-population-sees-record-growth-mostly-temporary-residents/

PacificNic, to random
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Sharing this because, while I don't like things being killed, carpenter ants will make your house fall over eventually.

Exterminators have a vested interest in not actually solving the problem. Here's how you ACTUALLY do it (and it's not intuitive):

  1. Take a shop vac with no bag in it and fill it with a rough 6:1 mixture of icing sugar and Borax.
  2. Try to find the nest, ideally. You will want to do this anyway because they are eating the frame of your house. You need to replace the wood where they've been if you don't want the house to collapse.
  3. Open the wall/ceiling and suck up as many ants as you possibly can.
  4. Open the vacuum and release the ants.

The ants will go back to the nest and clean each other off. The nest will die over a few weeks and they won't ever come back.

SARS2PA, to H5N1
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Update for 4/1/2024!

Good April Morning SARS2PAians!

I hope your spring is healthy. 💐💐💐

VOCs

JN.1 and JN.1.4 stil dominate the leaderboard, but scientists are especially watching a groiup of new mutations including JN.1.18, JN.1.13, KP.2, JN.1.16, and KQ.1.: https://ibb.co/6RvHcZR

Some of these are moving FAST despite the already-very-fast mutations on the landscape.

Wastewater

We've reached a level of SARS2 material in wastewater low enough to match previous years (2020, 2021.): https://ibb.co/DMyG0k4

CDC

Quite a lot of counties with new hospital admits, especially the Western half of the State. The Southwest corner by Greene Co and from Centre on over to Erie Co and Jefferson are HIGH on the newest chart.: https://ibb.co/m6KYR0Z

The Inpatient Beds chart looks good except for some increases in Lawrence and around Cameron Cos.: https://ibb.co/SPm1wJt

The ICU bed chart looks very good! Most counties are having decreases! However some increases up by Pike Co and significant increases in Franklin and Fulton Cos.:https://ibb.co/sKdK54P

Research

Tuberculosis after recovering from COVID-19 is becoming more common.: https://ibb.co/ZxZ7kHY

Reactivation of underlying pathogens is NOT NEW. We know this factually from the chicken pox/shingles pathogen.

Also, measles is known to reset the ENTIRE immune system and bring protection from everything down to zero, potentially leaving reactivation of underlying pathogens, which is by levels of magnitude more complex than the physical disability it can cause and makes it imperative that you VACCINATE YOUR KIDS.: https://ibb.co/cbFXrRw

Again: NONE of this is brand new, and COVID19 along with other known pathogens, seems to potentially weaken the immune system enough to reactivate underlying pathogens.

Non-SARS2 Pathogens

COVID and RSV thankfully have been downgraded on WastewaterSCAN to "Medium" and "low" respectively.: https://ibb.co/k2SpgLR

However, quite a number of pathogens are still ranking in the HIGH level: FluA, FluB, Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) and the gastro pathogens Norovirus and Rotavirus are still out there.

HMPV often presents with a rash and is related to RSV:

https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/human-metapneumovirus.html
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22443-human-metapneumovirus-hmpv

The prevention for all these respiratory diseses is the same!

Be conscious of crowds.

Wear a mask in places with low air filtration.

Keep the air clean!

Stay home if you are sick!

For norovirus and rotavirus, it's important to wash hands with soap and warm water for 20sec.

:ms_arrow_right: DO NOT depend on gloves and hand sanitizer to control Norovirus, the particles are very resistant to alcohol.

H5N1

Nothing above here has scientists sitting up at attention right now except one thing: H5N1 bird flu.

H5N1 has jumped to dairy cattle (after infecting numerous other species such as seals, fox, deer, etc.), has been found in cattle in TX, KS, MI, NM, and now Idaho.: https://ibb.co/1JgGY2v

Before now, almost all transmission was bird-to-other-species. "Cow-to-cow transmission cannot be ruled out" and will be a disaster for the food supply if not controlled.: https://ibb.co/mDKVZ7R

There is resistance amongst dairy farmers in the US and in Europe to get their cattle tested.

The absolute worst case scenario is if it "makes the leap" to pigs. That means, if genetically it mutates (like COVID-19 is doing) to be able to:

---Infect pigs.

---Gain capability of pig-to-pig transmission.

The genetic "leap" from bird to mammals was very large, and will also be the "leap" from cattle to pig.....but the "leap" from pigs and ferrets to humans after that will be really, really small.

This would be the same route the Spanish Flu took 106 years ago: Birds -> pigs -> humans.

It is...really not a good time to consume unpasteurized, raw dairy products.

:ms_arrow_right: I'm spending a lot of words on this because so far, this thing has a 50% kill rate**. That is, 1 out of every 2 people who contract H5N1 will die.

I don't know what else to say. We MUST push for thorough farm testing, biosecurity, and intense transmission research.

Stay safe, I hope you had a GREAT holiday, and don't forget to use some form of source control in your daily adventures! 💐

!!!

limneticvillains, to random
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Hi Fediverse. Obscure indie musician here. I'm going to try shill you something, but- hear me out. I've got a guitar based record on Bandcamp I'm quite proud of and I've cut the price from 7 euro to a mere 2. The reason for this - I really want to get my other half something nice for her birthday and I have dust in my bank at the moment. If I can interest 50 people in buying this album, I can treat her to something nice. So please check it out, or share it, or buy it! https://vampiretree.bandcamp.com/

croissant, to random
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my heart breaks
https://www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/interview-maskdiscrimination

subjacentish, to random
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This is obviously a lot of people's first real tangle with a Sociologist and their grasp of statistics. :holdthepain:

maleve,
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@subjacentish sociologists may not be good at statistics and epidemiologists bad at fluid dynamics?

Shocked GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

mathew1927, to random
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COVID and cognitive decline

So we have studies showing 3 pts of IQ decline for non-hospitalized cases and 2 pts for reinfections. (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330)

Putting aside the problems of using IQ as an objective measure, this means that you get to 70pts at about 14 infections. Assuming steady decline (likely to accelerate with your body breaking down), and assuming one can survive that many infections physically.

So in 3-5 years, if you assume 3-4 infections a year, we will have mass societal level mental disability. If there's no mass die off by then, due to other organ damage. Might even be quicker if you account for prior infections.

Anyone else doing the mental napkin math on this. This is beyond catastrophic.


lhgmk2, to random
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Turned out of the tins frictionlessly. They are sweet , sticky, bananery, toffee coffee. Everything I wanted. Prep time, 10 mins, baking time 30 mins in the air fryer. No cake to cake in 40 minutes. I didn't measure anything 😁 🤣 Egg, self raising flour, three ripe bananas, demerera sugar, ground almonds, honey, three ground coffee beans, butter, splash of water, smashed to smooth porridge, put in greased tins. Topped with slices, honey drizzled. Easy.

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johnzajac, to random
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COVID cautious people need to stop obsessing over acute deaths and start redirecting the conversation toward long-term sickness.

Deaths are too low to make people care. That's just the brutal truth.

"Disability" is like "blindness" and "deafness": it's so scary to people they shut down rather than engage when they're told they're at risk. This "shutting down b/c of fear" reaction in communication has been shown over and over in studies.

"Get Sick. Stay Sick." is more where we should be imho.

hannu_ikonen,
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@deepmud @johnzajac

The notion that infectious illness exposure is good belies immune imprinting, OAS, & other processes..

What we are actually taught is, exposure to benign antigens may be beneficial in promoting immune tolerance.

Source: UW-Madison SMPH curriculum.

[[Edit: I see you are a retired RN. That is not the same, number one, as a Medical Degree that you are implying when saying you have a medical degree.

You are wrong, misinformed, and your logic presupposes we should all do chickenpox parties. Outdated thinking by 30-40 years.

Entraining an immune system by exposure to benign antigens, or priming it to inactivated or attenuated virus is not the same as getting sick. If I catch you condescending to John or anyone else again, I'll report you to your server for misinformation & abuse.]]

[[Edit 2: Cleaned up.]]

RebelGeek99, to random
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Is there a commonly used technical term for when an entire population is clinically-to-subclinically immune dysregulated and serving as incubators, an evolutionary breeding ground for more virulent and/or transmissive strains of commonly encountered secondary and opportunistic infections ?

I know the slang term ("we're effed"), just wondering if there's a specific technical term people are using to summarize the putative phenomenon.

RebelGeek99,
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@BE that occurred to me, but I always think of the LE as a precursor, setting the stage that leads to an evolutionary jump start for opportunistic pathogens.

Wait a second... I might have it... I'm feeling something coming up...

Post-Hoc Leonardi-Effect Germ Manifestation -- PHLEGM

We can call it the PHLEGM effect 🤧

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