"Who has a favorite N99 face mask they’re willing to recommend" 👇
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Joseph Kohlmann (@jkohlmann@mastodon.social)
Who has a favorite #N99 face mask they’re willing to recommend! Please and thank you 🙇🏼♂️ (Currently using #KN95 masks mostly.) #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafe #MaskUpSaveLivesMastodon
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Sooo buying a PlusLife in CAD is about 2x the price of in euros or USD, instead of 1.4x or 1.5x from the nominal exchange rates. Ouch!
I've emailed and hope the CC-community discount is significant, but would welcome advice or tips for getting it cheaper without needing a trip to the USA or Europe.
[edit: the discount is significant! The discounted price is still a factor higher than the currency-converted discounted price in EUR or USD though.]
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tbh I would be concerned about trying to bring it across a US Land border. If they search you, they might get, uh, edgy.
But then again this is Canada. You could probably enter the country with a moose literally sitting in the passenger seat.
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If you've been infected with sarscov2, after your acute symptoms resolved do you have chronic symptoms and/or hyperlipidemia (HL)?
- chronic symptoms, tests show HL (14%, 4 votes)
- chronic symptoms, suspect HL (0%, 0 votes)
- chronic symptoms, tests show *no* HL (11%, 3 votes)
- chronic symptoms, haven't considered HL (44%, 12 votes)
- no symptoms, tests show HL (0%, 0 votes)
- no symptoms, tests show *no* HL (7%, 2 votes)
- no symptoms, haven't considered HL (22%, 6 votes)
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My father in law was extremely fit and healthy, worked outside for 25 years. Very good shape.
He had a very bad Round 2 w/ Covid in 2021. chest pain, etc. Was 67.
Tests showed crazy high lipids, etc.
He had a massive heart attack, was clinically dead for 15 minutes in 2022, and now has a stent as well as irreparable damage to the "widow maker" artery. We wait for the phone call any day.
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This is heart-rending but I relate on so many levels. I am not a musician, nor do I suffer from long covid. I have pre-existing health conditions that make me want not to get sick with something potentially worse. I guess I'm just a ghost. And you can't count ghosts.
"When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID"
"Friends texted their fears to me frantically: “Is music over? Are shows done?” I thought back to informal and unconventional gigs, the freedom and potentiality those moments held, and reassured my friends, sequestered in our separate biomes. I said and believed: “Music always finds a way, youth culture always finds a way, underground culture always finds a way.”
thesicktimes.org/2024/11/15/mi…
@askazero
@auscovid19
#Covid #covidIsNotOver #YallStillMasking #EllieKPosts
Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID - The Sick Times
“Maybe now vocalists will finally start bringing their own mics,” I tweeted in the first days of March 2020. My virtual audience was mostly friends I met by participating in subcultures in and adjacent to the DIY tendency of hardcore punk rock.Beck Levy (The Sick Times)
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bird feeders and bird flu --
extra precautions needed?
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Likely Jan Lukas (@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca)
Anyone know offhand whether we should be taking special precautions for #BirdFeeders this year? I presume a mystery case of #AvianFlu in #BC means there are likely non-identified infections here, too. 😢 #yegMastodon Canada
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Conspiracy of Silence?
There seems to be a conspiracy of silence around COVID. How did everyone get this memo but we didn't? We noticed it beginning a couple of years ago. This is how it goes:
No one can say they have COVID. If you mention that C word, people go quiet and change the subject or turn away, acting as though they haven't heard. You're allowed to say you have something (flu, summer cold, persistent cough, some virus) as long as you minimise it. If you see someone wearing a serious mask, pretend you haven't seen them. If someone asks you how you are when you're not well (with one of those mystery illnesses) you say you are feeling fine now. You pretend not to notice that so many people around you are falling sick. And you put down the rise in serious health issues in your friends to aging.
And no one talks about it. So I'm breaking the taboo. I'm saying it out loud.
@askazero
@auscovid19
#covidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborn #Covid #NotInDenial #YallMasking
#EllieKPosts #conspiracy
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Canadians! Interested in helping out? (It's super quick)
COVID and flu monitoring
For the 2024-2025 surveillance season, the FluWatchers program continues to track cough and fever activity in the community, to help monitor flu, COVID-19, and other seasonal respiratory illnesses. The FluWatchers program gathers data on healthy participants as well as those experiencing cough and fever, so it's important that you try to answer the questionnaire each week whether you are healthy or sick. That will allow us to calculate more accurate rates of illness each week.
I just answered this week's FluWatchers survey! My weekly responses contribute to monitoring flu-like illness in my community. Help out by becoming a FluWatcher today! cnphi.canada.ca/fluWatcher/reg… #FluWatchers
#COVID #covisIsNotOver #YallStillMasking @auscovid19 @askazero
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I’ve been filling out this survey for a couple of months and it’s literally 30 seconds or less to answer it - in case anyone is worried about not having enough time.
I just have two questions to answer every week: “do you have a fever?” and “do you have a cough” - options are “yes” or “no” or “I’m not sure”. That’s it.
If you haven’t had your latest Covid booster they may ask you about whether you’ve had it. Still super quick to answer.
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I have a Luggable from CleanAirKits.com. It's MERV-13 instead of HEPA, but similar very good purification and the computer-case-fans make it quiet.
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is there a covid-safer events group, like for @askazero ?
I guess not, because without being split by geography it's be too much irrelevance?
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@subjacentish EVERY event you attend is COVID-safer
the tricks is the no trespassing sign
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A hypothetical scenario might be getting a very small infectious dose, the virus replicates a few times and just barely makes it to the detectable level, her body slaps it down, she tests negative again (and, one would hope, clears the virus for good). In theory, sometimes the immune system does rack up a swift and thorough win.
I dunno how likely it is.
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Is there anything wrong with fear? Healthy fear has saved many lives. Think about it.
I get accused sometimes (or it's implied) that I'm living in fear as I take precautions to avoid catching COVID. I mask using a great quality N95, I avoid crowded locations, concerts, use curbside pickup, don't eat indoors in restaurants etc.
I do these things because I have chosen to educate myself about the risks (long-term as well as short term) of catching COVID, as well as the ways to mitigate those risks.
Is that living in fear? On the contrary. I can relax, knowing that as far as possible I am protecting myself according to the best scientific recommendations.
But I suppose it is a level of fear in the sense that my awareness has instigated these behaviors. I think of it as a healthy, informed fear. I have the same healthy fear of getting run over crossing the road. I have educated myself and know that crossing blindly, anywhere, without looking, will put me at risk of being hit by a car or truck. So this healthy fear makes me look for a crosswalk, press the button if there is one, and wait for the traffic to stop, before taking my life in my hands and stepping off the curb.
People would think I was stupid (and they would be right) if I ignored the risks, listened to the calm, authoritative voice of people, even friends, telling me that there is little chance a vehicle will be coming along this road at this time, so the risk is small, and I got hit. Is this living in fear? No one would think that.
So why is there not the same attitude to being fully informed and protecting yourself against a disease which continues to seriously affected the lives of hundreds of millions around the world and has even killed many millions?
It's a mystery. A bit like the 'mystery virus' affecting so many I know. Why are they all stepping blindly off the COVID curb, so many getting hit, so to speak? Because they don't want to know?
@askazero
@auscovid19
#covidIsNotOver #EllieKPosts #COVIDcautious #COVID #FearCanBeHealthy #healthyFear
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I never saw the reply to my post from that person as it was deleted on our server.
But thanks to all for the rational, science based replies.
@themaskerscomic @askazero
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Subjacent Banana
in reply to trendless • • •tbh I never see a power surge on it when looking @ it on a battery.
But it does sometimes disconnect mid-cycle or somewhere in there. Could be related to a power surge, dunno...
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Subjacent Banana
in reply to trendless • • •There's something really weird w/ the pluslife power draw. I don't understand it exactly.
Some outlets explicitly rated for 3A do not power it. Some do but you get no bluetooth connectivity.
I'm not at all an electronics expert, so I have no clue.😆 I only know 12v systems on cars. I'm old.
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A Concerned Scientist
in reply to trendless • • •Maybe a helpful data point, but not an exact answer to your question. We've run it each time on an EcoFlow River 2 Max, which lists:
USB-A Output
5V, 2.4A, 12W Max
Never had a problem on it.
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Thomas Waldmann
in reply to trendless • • •I suspect that maximum power draw is when the device is activating the heating (it needs to heat up to ~60 degrees celsius internally).
After switching it on (while blinking red), it needs to go up from 20 to 60, so there is some continuous heating. After that, I guess it will pulse the heater to stay at 60.
I didn't measure that, just educated guessing.
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