Links: Covid and IWW

[sonia]

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show by Meghan Bartels.

The untallied cases show the burden of the pandemic in the U.S. fell most heavily on marginalized people.

“These vulnerable groups are just taking a higher risk at every step, and the accumulation of all of that is this disparity in COVID mortality at the end,” says Mathew Kiang, an epidemiologist at Stanford University and a co-author of the study.

Nine observations from carbon dioxide monitoring by A. Grieve-Smith.

I’ve been checking carbon dioxide levels for over three years now, and I’ve started to see patterns. I don’t have to keep checking the same places, because they have the same levels under similar conditions. [...] I’d like to share some of the things I’ve learned, so that you can benefit even if you haven’t been monitoring carbon dioxide on your own.

A couple of interesting links from Industrial Workers of the World, a union for all workers. Direct Action and Sabotage and The Black Cat (Sabo-Tabby).

Comments

[melannen]

I got a CO2 monitor for Christmas and have noted that Covid aside, I start feeling cruddy around 1000 pmm and get a small headache after more than a couple minutes at 1200. (My bedroom can get up to 1600 overnight if the windows are closed and the electric heat is running, and on those nights my sleep quality is terrible.) I've been recording how I feel when I wake up and then checking the co2 just to blind it a little bit, and it's pretty strong. And there really isn't a better solution than opening the windows and taking a hit on the heating bill - no matter where you pull the fresh air from, you're going to have to heat it up first. :/ We really need to solve the ventilation problem.

[sonia]

Interesting that it affects sleep quality for you! I haven't tracked that, but I do notice that I get restless when trying to work if it gets above 750 or so.

And good point about needing to heat fresh air. That's why after the 1918 flu pandemic they installed all that steam heat that makes it so warm you have to open a window.