Louisgod posted:

[tears streaming down my face, nose completed stuffed] this one's for you, mom *slides $20 into Wheel of Fortune slot machine*

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The city-data forums are the most racist backwards poo poo I've ever seen

When the pandemic started a bunch of guys on the pittsburgh one started posting about how glad they were that the "Democrat disease" was going to "empty out blue cities"

Louisgod posted:

[tears streaming down my face, nose completed stuffed] this one's for you, mom *slides $20 into Wheel of Fortune slot machine*

Gio posted:

cspam covid thread is a mindset

every time i come here i get into a state of zen shitposting with likeminded idiots

Smythe posted:

not available at any nearby store lol. cvs, wallgreens, rite aid, target, all sold out. brutal.

Gripweed posted:

Cock-mad Helen posted:

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1484240944870342663?s=20
Bad poopoo juju

Smythe posted:

hard to find antigen tests. annoying.

etalian posted:

Pretty much every western nation has given up Zero Covid as a policy goal.

Comrade Xi and the Chinese people stand alone.

triple sulk posted:

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1484250601626214402?s=21

hamtaro no!!

triple sulk posted:

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1484250601626214402?s=21

hamtaro no!!

kalensc posted:

I haven't read this dude's twitter so maybe he sucks, but his reasoning was okay IMO at the time?

Yes, he got owned due to the booster timing and Open Biden Omicron Boogaloo, but when Delta was raging his spacing of the first two doses gave him superior protection compared to folks that had both doses within a month back in early 2021.

Timing with the pregnancy seems good too? Again, without the benefit of hindsight.

Perhaps I'm the idiot since I ascribed to a similar approach on vaccine timing in 2021. At least he seems to put effort into protecting himself and his family, so if he made a misstep at least it was with good intentions.

Platystemon posted:

You don’t want air to get from wherever your roommate is hanging out to wherever you’re eating, sleeping, and doing anything else incompatible with respirator use.

Central air will distribute air throughout the house. MERV 13 is not HEPA; it does not remove enough virosols in a single pass to make it safe.

You can either turn off the furnace, or you can make it heat only part of the house by sealing off vents in the rest of the house.

Let’s say you set up your bedroom as the safe room. Cover the air vent there. Large ziplog bags, with the side seams cut off to get one large sheet, are are good source of plastic for this. You want the plastic to extend past the vent on all sides so you can tape it cleanly to the ceiling, floor, or wall with two layers of masking or gaffer’s tape. The air pressure will try to force the tape off, so be generous with it.

There is likely a large gap under your interior door. Get “door bottom” weather stripping to close up this gap. Seal all around the door frame with weather stripping as well. How exactly you do this depends on the specifics of how the door is constructed and fitted. If the door doesn’t latch after the weather stripping is in place, loosening the screws on the strike plate may give you enough “play” to get it latching again.

By the way, make sure you remove this after this all blows over and you unseal the vent, because the gap under the door is intentional and necessary for conditioned air to make it to the air return.

Now put a box fan in the window to positively pressurize the room. Block the gap(s) this leaves in the window opening with cardboard and if necessary, tape. It doesn’t need to be hermetically sealed, just no gaping holes.

You can put filters on the fan if you’re worried about virosols being sucked in from the sidewalk or whatever, but you’re probably going to have to build a cube out of filters to get the resistance down and ensure the pressure you want. The goal is eight pascals. Your smartphone has a barometer built into it that can measure with this degree of precision. Put the phone on a table with the barometer app running. Note the figure. Now turn on the fan and hopefully you’ll see it go up by at least eight pascals. It’s not much in absolute terms—air pressure at sea level is about one hundred thousand pascals.

The Lasko Power Plus that Home Depot carries is a good fan. Check online for stores with stock because this is not the season when they are generally sold.

The by-the-book operation is to run the fan continuously. It can likely be on its lowest setting, at least when the door to the rest of the house is shut, and still provide enough pressure. Your climate may be warm enough for you to run the fan all the time. If you can’t stand this, you can at least pressurize the room when the door is open. Get radio controlled power plug for the fan so you can turn it on/off as you go in and out of the room, always having it running at full speed while the door is open.

Put one or more Corsi Cubes or other air purifiers around. Sick room, safe room, common areas could all benefit from them. Yes, you’re trying to control air movement and using the respirator anywhere the virus may be present, but the less of it floating around, the lower the chance that there’s any around to capitalize on small weaknesses in your defenses.

If I had only one air purifier, I would prioritize the safe room, then the common area, then the sick room, but I don’t really know what’s optimal. Is it better to capture virosols near their source, or better to ensure that the air you are most exposed to is absolutely clean? I don’t know. Someone should model it.

You can totally shower in a 6200 with 7093 cartridges. For a couple weeks, you’ll have to towel off your face on the patio. What’s more annoying is having to shave without running water.

sonatinas posted:

https://cleanaircrew.org/air-cleaners/

https://mobile.twitter.com/marwa_zaatari/status/1429629474878988288/photo/1

her twitter has a bunch of other graphs for comparison, the just shows a one filter cube, I can’t find the 4-5 filter chart right now

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Hopefully someone will find this for you but I think it was on this person’s Twitter:

https://twitter.com/marwa_zaatari/s...pagenumber%3D11

I have to get ready for telehealth therapy lmao so I don’t have time to search atm, but I decided to buy a Conway Airmega 250 based on that chart and I think this is the person who made the chart and I found it searching her Twitter. Love the Airmega 250 btw.

McNugget Buddy posted:

Each state getting 1000 doses of mAbs/week isn't going to cut it

Smythe posted:

BOTH of my bank branches within walking distance are CLOSED for an indeterminate amount of time. so now i have to drive me car somewhere to get laundry quarters? like a cave man? insanely hosed up.

triple sulk posted:

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1484250601626214402?s=21

hamtaro no!!

Platystemon posted:

You don’t want air to get from wherever your roommate is hanging out to wherever you’re eating, sleeping, and doing anything else incompatible with respirator use.

Central air will distribute air throughout the house. MERV 13 is not HEPA; it does not remove enough virosols in a single pass to make it safe.

You can either turn off the furnace, or you can make it heat only part of the house by sealing off vents in the rest of the house.

Let’s say you set up your bedroom as the safe room. Cover the air vent there. Large ziplog bags, with the side seams cut off to get one large sheet, are are good source of plastic for this. You want the plastic to extend past the vent on all sides so you can tape it cleanly to the ceiling, floor, or wall with two layers of masking or gaffer’s tape. The air pressure will try to force the tape off, so be generous with it.

There is likely a large gap under your interior door. Get “door bottom” weather stripping to close up this gap. Seal all around the door frame with weather stripping as well. How exactly you do this depends on the specifics of how the door is constructed and fitted. If the door doesn’t latch after the weather stripping is in place, loosening the screws on the strike plate may give you enough “play” to get it latching again.

By the way, make sure you remove this after this all blows over and you unseal the vent, because the gap under the door is intentional and necessary for conditioned air to make it to the air return.

Now put a box fan in the window to positively pressurize the room. Block the gap(s) this leaves in the window opening with cardboard and if necessary, tape. It doesn’t need to be hermetically sealed, just no gaping holes.

You can put filters on the fan if you’re worried about virosols being sucked in from the sidewalk or whatever, but you’re probably going to have to build a cube out of filters to get the resistance down and ensure the pressure you want. The goal is eight pascals. Your smartphone has a barometer built into it that can measure with this degree of precision. Put the phone on a table with the barometer app running. Note the figure. Now turn on the fan and hopefully you’ll see it go up by at least eight pascals. It’s not much in absolute terms—air pressure at sea level is about one hundred thousand pascals.

The Lasko Power Plus that Home Depot carries is a good fan. Check online for stores with stock because this is not the season when they are generally sold.

The by-the-book operation is to run the fan continuously. It can likely be on its lowest setting, at least when the door to the rest of the house is shut, and still provide enough pressure. Your climate may be warm enough for you to run the fan all the time. If you can’t stand this, you can at least pressurize the room when the door is open. Get radio controlled power plug for the fan so you can turn it on/off as you go in and out of the room, always having it running at full speed while the door is open.

Put one or more Corsi Cubes or other air purifiers around. Sick room, safe room, common areas could all benefit from them. Yes, you’re trying to control air movement and using the respirator anywhere the virus may be present, but the less of it floating around, the lower the chance that there’s any around to capitalize on small weaknesses in your defenses.

If I had only one air purifier, I would prioritize the safe room, then the common area, then the sick room, but I don’t really know what’s optimal. Is it better to capture virosols near their source, or better to ensure that the air you are most exposed to is absolutely clean? I don’t know. Someone should model it.

You can totally shower in a 6200 with 7093 cartridges. For a couple weeks, you’ll have to towel off your face on the patio. What’s more annoying is having to shave without running water.

Smythe posted:

hard to find antigen tests. annoying.

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://www.wbez.org/stories/who-is...paign=Web-Share

Biden is working on killing off his base, so they're not exactly wrong

empty whippet box posted:

my attempt to see this positively is that everyone is giving me a chance to get ahead of them in life that I never would have had before. If I can avoid catching covid ever again then eventually I will be king of america

McNugget Buddy posted:

BA.2 The Future

Delta-Wye posted:

just gotta hurry up and make more people, matty was right all along

UFOTacoMan posted:

One thing that has been interesting trying to walk the line on during all this is my kid has been going through some issues with the fear of sickness and vomit...this preceded the pandemic. We've been doing therapy for a few years and things have been going pretty well but it sure was something trying to ignore my child's instincts to protect themselves from sickness in order to help them get over the mental anxiety it causes all while in the middle of a pandemic.

Child Psychologist: You can't reinforce the compulsions that your child has about touching door handles and not wanting to go into restaurants. You must not enable that behavior.

Me in my head: but they are right though......

Zisky posted:

Thinking of starting one of Adriene's 30 day challenges. Those drat videos seem like the only thing keeping my anxiety at reasonable levels these days.

Zodium posted:

one thing we should probably consider producing are guidelines for protecting yourself from an airborne pathogen that our various health authorities refused to produce. the need for respirators/n95 and their best practices won't be changing, principles of air flow management won't change, isolation procedures and air purification won't change, etc., so this is something that realistically could be crowdsourced from old posts into a manual as a one time deal and updated only lightly.

McNugget Buddy posted:

Walensky's still a loving idiot

https://twitter.com/Alexander_Tin/status/1484008490372849674

Cock-mad Helen posted:

https://twitter.com/Tami707/status/1484240686031327233?s=20

space chandeliers posted:

am i getting this right:

everyone's looking for rapid antigen tests despite the small (but not insignificant) chance of false-negative because

a) this is what employers/schools/childcare places are looking for as it's the quickest way to get asses back in seats (or out of seats, but we all know it's mostly for getting them in), and
b) many people live in areas where PCR testing capabilities are being or have already been dismantled.

if you elect to take the higher fidelity PCR, then you're basically

a) pissing off the boss because you're out while waiting for the results to come back, and
b) eating up lost wages/PTO.

UFOTacoMan posted:

One thing that has been interesting trying to walk the line on during all this is my kid has been going through some issues with the fear of sickness and vomit...this preceded the pandemic. We've been doing therapy for a few years and things have been going pretty well but it sure was something trying to ignore my child's instincts to protect themselves from sickness in order to help them get over the mental anxiety it causes all while in the middle of a pandemic.

Child Psychologist: You can't reinforce the compulsions that your child has about touching door handles and not wanting to go into restaurants. You must not enable that behavior.

Me in my head: but they are right though......

Delta-Wye posted:

i thought covid is over, this is really lovely news