The heat of summer and the cold of winter are always difficult regarding good #ventilation of the house I live in.

Honestly I prefer winter, because I don't mind the cold. Running a window fan to bring in fresh air to circulate is easier for me in the winter than it is in the summer.

It is difficult in summer because it seems nonsensical and a waste of energy to open windows to ventilate when it's over 100°F outside every day.

But today, I really kept an eye on the CO2, and I did ventilate the room that I spend the most time in for about 20 minutes each time. That dropped the CO2 into the 700s from the 1200s, albeit briefly.

Normally I have my ventilation fans scheduled to run overnight when the temperature drops below 70°, but the temperature has not been dropping below 70° at night this entire week.

Tonight, our lowest temperature is going to be 80°F, and only briefly.

#CO2 can get up over 1200 PPM even in a room where I'm not sitting, sleeping, or working -- especially in the summer.

Put me and another human, or me and two dogs, in a room, and it'll shoot up past 1500 PPM in about 20-30 minutes. God forbid I use the stove for anything! Which is why I have an induction hot plate and an air fryer, not to mention the microwave.

Running the whole house fan constantly does not seem to positively affect CO2 levels unless I have opened a window and put a fan in it to ventilate fresh air into the house near the intake grate.

Thus the need to think about an air exchanger/heat exchanger (I don't remember the exact name!) when I eventually replace the AC unit.

I have not yet been able to secure the funds to replace the AC and to add on a heat exchange/ventilation unit, though, which, last time I checked, would cost me close to an extra $3000 on top of the AC replacement.

I think it is a worthwhile investment for the future, so it's on the list of things to do. Right now I'm just crossing my fingers that my 20-plus-year-old AC unit will survive another hot summer!

The only way I've been able to work around on this problem is to put one or two ventilation fans in windows and have them on timers. I'll set them to run periodically throughout the evening and overnight. Then, I take the fans out of the windows during the heat of the day and close and cover the windows.

That does mean bringing hot air into the house periodically, but I think the CO2 buildup this past week has been contributing to poor sleep and possibly even my stomach upset issues.

During spring and fall, I can usually leave the fans in the windows and running for much longer -- if not all day and all night.

The only other complicating factor is air quality. So, every day, I have to make choices on how I'm going to ventilate the house based on temperature, CO2 levels, as well as outdoor air quality.

I know for a fact that I sleep better when the air is fresh. It's quite the dance, the ventilation dance, that now happens almost every single day.

Six years ago I didn't even know that CO2 buildup indoors was even a problem. Then, I picked up a couple of CO2 monitors and was shocked at how bad the air quality was in my bedroom.

The first reading I got was over 3000 PPM! I ended up bringing in two different monitors to make sure the one that gave me that reading wasn't wrong. It wasn't! No wonder I felt like a truck had hit me every single morning when I woke up!

The #Covid pandemic has really helped educate me about keeping indoor clean. And no, HEPA air filters do not do anything to reduce CO2 levels. The type of air filter that does that is more industrial grade, and is also way out of my price range. A single unit that might actually do that for a whole house would cost as much as putting an ventilation/air exchanger on the system when I do replace it. For now, it's the fan dance.

#TheMoreYouKnow

https://defector.com/were-just-going-to-keep-doing-2020-again-until-all-the-wrong-stuff-is-true

This strange and vibrant misinformation economy exists not counter to some establishment narrative but parallel to it, and its relationship to the reality of the pandemic as it actually happened is similarly abstracted. That story is knowable and known, but it is finally and fundamentally the story of a terrible loss, and of a thing that happened to all of us more or less together; the people held up as its heroes when it was happening were heroic precisely because of how vulnerable they made themselves, and because of the sacrifices inherent in that choice.

The social movement that arose from this moment reflected that, too, in its insistence that, contra all the institutional brutality and neglect and incapacity, the most vulnerable and least valued lives mattered as much as every other. That, it seems to me, was the hardest lesson to learn, and ultimately the one that the culture resisted most strongly and ultimately rejected most vigorously—that how you looked or what you believed or how much stuff you had really didn't have much bearing on whether you got sick or not, and that medicines worked the same on every human body.

#covid19 #covid #UsPol #MAGA #maha #fascism #disinformation #misinformation #disinfo #propaganda #elonmusk #bariweiss #markZuckerberg #larryEllison #peterThiel #oligarchy #classwar

Paper cited by #Republicans seeking to blame #vaccination for #COVID deaths is retracted. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/122571?

Maskless #Defcon attendees are destroying their own and everyone else's health. #Covid

https://lnkd.in/p/gZAVP4eD

Alt...

4A, ark Ungrin @ - 2nd . ES Professor at the University of Calgary v 21h - 21h Turns out that letting COVID rip and stopping data collection to hide the consequences does not, in fact, work to end the pandemic. Who knew? Certainly not public health leaders. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine - 3rd+ ! Professional body for public health medicine, New Zealand 1d. ® We have issued a press release on why we believe that record-breaking demand for ambulances over the past week should spur a greater focus on prevention. Key public health measures such as expanding vaccination, strengthening surveillance, and improving outdoor and indoor air quality are important measures to reduce the winter burden of disease, and reduce demand on ambulance and acute services. Greater focus on prevention - 2 pages New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine Media Release Record demand for ambulance service should spur greater focus on prevention 10 August 2026 The New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine believes that record-breaking demand for ambulances over the past week should spur a greater focus on prevention and public health measures

Il Sole 24 ORE - Italia: Rifiuti, il fardello da 84 milioni (in due anni) lasciato dal Covid

Nel decreto approvato martedì 4 agosto in Cdm la nomina di un Commissario straordinario per smaltire oltre 22mila tonnellate di rifiuti ereditati dalla pandemia

Waste, the burden of 84 million (over two years) left by COVID.

In Tuesday’s decree approved by the Council of Ministers, the appointment of a special commissioner to deal with over 22,000 tons of waste inherited from the pandemic is announced.

#COVID #over22,000tons

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/rifiuti-fardello-84-milioni-in-due-anni-lasciato-covid-AJ88Qoh

Ich bin etwas aus dem Impfegame von #corona #covid draussen, was ist gerade aktuell in Dtl und wie bekommt man das? Hab was von einer neuen Impfe, die gerade erprobt wird, gelesen. https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/117062640576051924

Domani: Oltre i deficit permanenti, la riduzione del debito è di destra o di sinistra?

Quella che si delinea è l’ennesima manovra per tirare a campare, che è sempre meglio che tirare le cuoia. Meloni e Giorgetti, in questo, sono in continuità con i governi che li hanno preceduti, Covid a parte. Ecco, il centrosinistra dovrà ammettere l’uso del deficit come stimolo nei periodi di rallentamento, ma non deve fondare la sua retorica sull’auspicio di renderli fissi

Beyond permanent deficits, is debt reduction right-wing or left-wing?

What is emerging is yet another maneuver to get by, which is always better than letting things slide. Meloni and Giorgetti are in continuity with the governments that preceded them, Covid aside. Here, the center-left will have to admit the use of deficit as a stimulus during periods of slowdown, but it must not base its rhetoric on the hope of making them fixed.

#Meloni #Giorgetti #Covid

https://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/commenti/ridurre-debito-destra-sinistra-andare-oltre-deficit-permanenti-bilancio-manovra-u0unwmb6

This week's Pandemics in BC blog posts:
General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/08/07/2026-08-07-general/
BC: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/08/07/2026-08-07-bc/

#covid19bc #covid19 #covid #measles #influenza

Agenzia Nova: Covid: Conte a Meloni, amo verita', confrontiamoci, non chiedero' mai scudo

07 ago 22:24 - (Agenzia Nova) - Giorgia Meloni, "in preda alla frustrazione della mia audizione fiume, e' venuta allo scoperto con un post... (Rin)

COVID: Conte tells Meloni, I love the truth, let’s talk, I will never ask for protection/a shield.

August 7, 22:24 – (Agenzia Nova) - Giorgia Meloni, “overwhelmed by the frustration of her lengthy hearing, came out into the open with a post...” (Rin)

#COVID #Conte #Meloni #AgenziaNova #GiorgiaMeloni

https://www.agenzianova.com/a/6a764627c62372.74764696/7682138/2026-08-07/covid-conte-a-meloni-amo-verita-confrontiamoci-non-chiedero-mai-scudo

Nervous laugh from a senior dev coworker I don't usually see face-to-face. He is staring at me 'cause I am wearing an N95 mask as I walk into a room at the same time as him. He asks,

"Heh heh, I see!
Are you...
Is there something you know?...
That I should worry about?"

I am the last one in the room to still be wearing a mask.

There is one other masking coworker in a nearby group.

That's it.

So many words. No words.

#covid #n95

Some coworkers show up in an N95 mask, sometimes, because they are working sick. They know they are sick, know they are contageous, but they still are going to come to work.

Or maybe, just show up sick, no mask, sit there and cough for hours. One fellow, a boss, with covid. Knew it, still came to work, sat there and coughed.

I couldn't tell him off.

I need this job. My family needs my paycheck.

I can't retire. I will have to work until I die.

I try to delay that as long as I can.

#covid

Today: Tra Conte e Meloni volano gli stracci e non c'entra solo il Covid

L'audizione di Giuseppe Conte alla commissione d'inchiesta sulla gestione dell'emergenza Covid ha avuto una coda polemica e, possiamo giurarci, non sarà l'ultima. C'è stato un botta e risposta via social con la premier Giorgia Meloni. La presidente del Consiglio pungola il leader dei 5 Stelle: "A...

The sheets are flying between Conte and Meloni and it’s not just about the COVID pandemic.

Giuseppe Conte’s hearing before the Covid emergency management inquiry commission was contentious and, we can assure you, will not be the last. There was a back-and-forth via social media with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The Prime Minister stung the leader of the Five Star Movement: “A…

#Conte #Meloni #COVID #GiuseppeConte’s #Covid #GiorgiaMeloni #theFiveStarMovement

https://www.today.it/politica/giorgia-meloni-giuseppe-conte-scontro-covid.html

Repubblica.it: Covid, Conte accusa: “Meloni regista del plotone d’esecuzione”. La premier: “La verità è un diritto”

Cinque ore di botta e risposta tra FdI e il leader del M5S: dal Green pass ai vaccini. Il confronto riprenderà il 14 settembre

COVID, Conte accuses: “Meloni is the director of the execution squad.” The prime minister: “The truth is a right.”

Five hours of back-and-forth between FdI and the leader of the M5S: from the Green Pass to vaccines. The discussion will resume on September 14th.

#COVID #Conte #Meloni

https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2026/08/07/news/conte_difesa_audizione_commissione_covid-425516499/