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1 minute ago, Not_a_Number said:
Yes, thank you very very much for posting the ones you use upthread. I've been pondering whether I want to get one or not. Honestly, I haven't decided where we we want to go with our COVID strategies now that we've had it. On the one hand, I've been enjoying not worrying about it. On the other hand... well, I just haven't thought about it much.
I need to talk all his over with DH, too. Decisions, decisions.
I really, really appreciate knowing the numbers. Thank you so much for that other thread and the pointers to the data.
Oh, you want one!!!! You are a data person, I think. It's quite empowering to be able to get the data yourself. And be able to use it to make decisions in real time.
It is the best toy.
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3 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:
🤷♀️ I don’t have anything to add. I don’t care about assertions, only measurements.
I haven't taking CO2 measurements on any public transit other than planes and taxis ( and a coach bus and a school bus). None of them were very good, for the record.
There are some public transit data posted on the Raven app.
Portable CO2 monitors are quite accessible though, even some libraries are loaning them now - those are measurements you could take yourself if you really wanted to. Vitalight is inexpensive, and mine is quite accurate after manual calibration (+/- 30 ppm of my Aranet)
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On 11/4/2022 at 4:01 AM, Ausmumof3 said:
Hopefully this is still viewable for those not on Twitter
Yes. Link directly to CBC article. Combine high infections resp illness rates with what seems like increasing severity (cue covid induced immune suppression hypothesis) with paediatric over-the-counter med shortages (can't find liquid tylenol or advil anywhere), with some clinics and primary care practices still refusing to see patients with infectious resp illness symptoms, with severe emergency department staffing shortages (a full nursing complement in my ED is something like 15-18. My last night shift we had 11. We've had nights with as few as 7) and you have a disaster.
And paeds ICUs are full. We are having to push kids 14+ into adult ICUs. This is a huge deal.
And it's not just kids. I saw 3 back to back respiratory resuscitations (infectious resp illness) on my last night shift, and 2 of those were younger, healthy adults, with flu and covid respectively. Adult covid hospitalizations and emerge visit are climbing steeply - number of admitted covid pts in my hospital has more than doubled in the last month. (And that doesn't count flu, RSV, other infectious resp illness admits)
ED departments are severely overcrowded and understaffed. I had, at peak, 107 patients in my 40-ish bed, short-staffed dept last night. This is now normal. They are stacked in chairs and hallways. On any given day, at least 20-ish of those, and on very bad days, up to 35 or those, will be admitted patients - so at least half of my beds are blocked can't be used to move ED patients through.
Conditions are impossible.
My professional life is pretty horrid right now.
We know that schools and daycares are major drivers of spread of infectious resp illness. We know that universal masking in indoor public spaces and schools works to decrease transmission. But, nope. Masking is unpopular. So, this is fine, I guess.
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My kid's school bus peaked at 1583ppm the first week of school.
About 20 kids on a full sized bus - so not at all crowded.
37 min ride, 9 stops, windows cracked.
I haven't measure d again since the weather has turned colder. I think I will check again now that the weather's colder and the windows are likely closed. I think it will be significantly worse.
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Sleeping mats: I like insulated self-inflating ones. I have a thick one for standing/base camping. 6cm. It's as good as my bed at home as far as comfort. But it's bulky and way to heavy for backpacking
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Adding: mid-range tents often don't have factory-sealed seams in the fly. You can fix that with a tube of seam grip. Use it to waterproof any trouble spots (IME often where lantern loops are stitched into the seam at the same location as a fly attachment point). You will figure out any trouble spots during your first downpour, and you can fix them on the spot
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Need more info:
Will you be carrying the tent (backpacking) or not (car camping) or something in between (canoe camping)?
If you want a tent that will be dry, and will work in spring/summer/fall, then you need something with a full fly. Winter tents are a whole other thing, and not really good for summer.
If you want to be cool in summer, you need something with cross ventilation (many tents with both front and back door and vestibules do this well)
If you want to be warm in cool weather, you need a full fly and and a small interior space.
Something like a Eureka Spacecamp - decent mid-range 4 person tent with full-fly - is a happy medium 3-season tent that's also very spacious for 2.
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30 minutes ago, Matryoshka said:
She wants me to buy her a fan for her room because it's stuffy in there, but I kind of doubt I can get a box fan here (isn't that what you use to make those?) - also probably no furnace filters, as I don't think they have furnaces here. It's currently in the 70s in November, which is why I can keep the windows wide open...
I wondered. It looks like gas heat is a thing, but seems like usually gas-fired boilers rather than forced air. So, I guess no need for filters.
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I mask in public because I really don't want covid.
But I also feel that I have an ethical obligation to mask in public indoor spaces. The burden of this pandemic has been disproportionately borne by marginalized groups: the elderly, the medically fragile, those with disabilities, immune compromise, the incarcerated, those in congregate living settings, racialized people, the list goes on and on. I am very aware of my privilege. I feel that have an ethical obligation to interrupt chains of transmission as much i as reasonably can, because I can't know where covid that I might unknowlingly transmit will land and how much grief it will cause. So I mask.
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18 hours ago, Matryoshka said:
I'll be here three weeks; she's here the whole month, so hopefully we'll have time to still do some fun things.
Yeah, she doesn't want me to close her bedroom door, and there's no bathroom fan (this is a veeeery old house, though this apartment is newly renovated). I am hanging out most of the time, and sleeping, by open windows.
I am glad I had her test, even though it's cramping her style, as she's not objectively very sick and I may well have already been exposed, but I also believe in viral load being important, so if I do get it, hoping less exposure still helps it be as mild and short as possible.
I wonder if furnace filters are a thing that's easily available at a Spanish hardwqre store? If so, it might be worth making yourself a corsi-rosenthal box to run in her room
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We will keep masking in all public indoor spaces for the foreseeable future. We are very, very selective about where we unmask when inddors with people who don't live with us; right now that's while sharing a meal with grandparents, after having all testing, with windows cracked, and with the CR box running.
I can see us switching to a more liberal strategic approach when 1)COVID is rare in the community and 2)indoor air quality is excellent. Right now, neither of those are true in most public indoor spaces. So we mask.
Regarding HCW not masking outside of work: It's the same here. I agree that it makes not sense. But, of course, HCW are people. Susceptible to all the same social pressures and cognitive biases and cognitive errors as everyone else. Most of them have had COVID and had mild cases. Most of them (in my cohort) are vax to the max. They want back-to-normal social events and social lives just like everyone else. So, they minimize.
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5 hours ago, Teaching3bears said:
What does the induction feature do?
Energy efficiency, and really precise temp control for "better" rice.
It makes really fantastic rice. Asian husband; this matters quite a lot 🙂
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Adding:
Our zoji has lasted very well. It's now close to 10 years old, and still going strong. We love it.
Rice cookers are bulky
A cheapie basic rice cooker will take up less room on the counter (not insulated, no brain). Might suit your purpose - at least help you decide if this is an applicance you will use often enough to dedicate the counter space.
We use ours daily - rice pretty much available all day, every day. for us a fancy one makes sense.
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Our family of four has a zojirushi 5 cup induction rice cooker, and it's perfect. My two teen boys and DS eat generous servings. Most meals we go through about 3 uncooked rice-cooker cups.
Main things to know:
- Rice-cooker cups are not the same as standard American cups. A rice-cooker cup is 180 mL (vs 240mL for standard american cup)
- Rice cooker capacity refers to rice-cooker cups of uncooked rice.
- Rice will approx double or triple in volume when cooked - depends on the rice. Our rice gets close to triple.
A 5 cup rice cooker might be just big enough for you, but will be close.
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YYZ --> YOW. It's the only one I have a screen shot of. There were no delays on this flight; both boarding and deplaning were very smooth and quick.
You can see the flat, low line at the gate - YYZ has good air!
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21 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:
How high did they go, by the way?
Mid-2000's on boarding.
Hotel room air was also bad, 2000's and 3000's.
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Monitors:
I now have 2 of them:
Aranet4: which I love. It saves data, graphs it, and can export data to laptop into Excel. Expensive. AAA batteries that last a long time - still on the same batteries since Dec 2021. Available lots of places.
Vitalight: 1/5th the cost of the Aranet. Rechargable. Needs manual calibration to be accurate - but once manually calibrated, is within 30ppm of my Aranet. Advertised battery life 8h, but really closer to 24. Does not save data. I send this one with DS to school to help him make good decisions about where to eat lunch. If he breaks it or loses it, oh well. Available at donatemask.ca and also at amazon.
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2 nights in a tent. Peak value at night was about 3200ppm
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Just now, Not_a_Number said:
Interesting about bars. Any idea why?
Crowded, probably. Loud music = shouting.
Exercise and heavy breathing really increases CO2. My own experiment in my backpacking tent: CO2 shoots up upon in the first 30 min or so of the night, while I'm moving around, getting changed, organizing. Then slowly falls and plateaus overnight while I'm asleep. Then spikes again while getting ready dressed, packed and ready for the day. It's quite dramatic.
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Re Raven app:
You can see patterns: Bars tend to have bad air. Concert halls bad air.
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PSA: keep masking when flying!
in The Chat Board
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Having the data to make good decisions has actually been pretty freeing for me.
If you use a monitor that stores data, you don't necessarily have to be looking at it all the time. Rather analyze the data retrospectively to see the patterns. If the patterns remain consistent over time, then you don't even need the monitor to know whether or not to mask in certain situations anymore - you will know that planes are reliably bad, and x grocery store is reliably good, and y bus is reliably middling, kid's school classroom a is good but b is bad etc.
I used mine yesterday to titrate the ventilation at a group retreat, to optimize safety for those who wanted to unmask.