Zephyr Leif Renner

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2025-06-23 21:51:53 UTC

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I imagine that bird’s eyes are also immune privileged, so it makes sense to see an ongoing response to the virus in the eye. Might be a reservoir

2025-06-18 02:31:34 UTC

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The absolutely fine art of bilingual comedy, delivered to a proudly monolingual audience deadpan, with panache. The Danes (Børge Rosenbaum was born one) have the same s possessive as English, and you know what? No apostrophe! @npub13f9…ech3

2025-06-17 23:49:27 UTC

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When you double one does the reader take twice the pause——and think my god what has he done?

2025-06-04 00:49:12 UTC

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“you can get sick from air before it’s filtered” is an incredibly simple way of stating this. Thank you! @npub1nzj…pmgc

2024-08-26 02:41:31 UTC

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of course they do. And cats. Dogs. Deer. Probably more or less every mammal out there, some more than others depending on the variant. And variants adapted to them now This is one of the reasons why Covid is likely a permanent threat even if we stipulated to an elimination in humans, it would come right back unless the behavior (etc) changes that led to elimination were made permanent, as in forever permanent.

2024-08-20 01:14:37 UTC

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even worse, for many people, living in cities, the air in their homes is not actually safe. It is a very low rate of covid sneaking through, but it is enough that keeping people home never broke the chain of transmission. UV or HEPA running constantly in city homes especially high rises and the like might be enough to break that chain. But still those people have to modify their lives for respirators, or they just get covid out off the house. @npub1pgh…5g4d

2024-08-20 01:09:55 UTC

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in the world today, unfortunately, you walk into a space with HEPA or UV and talk to somebody who has Covid for a few seconds maybe a minute depending on where they are in the cycle, and you get Covid. Without the air cleaning it might have taken a second or 4 less. It can clean the air after everyone else has left so you can unmask. Fundamentally though almost nobody is willing to modify their life to live in a respirator in shared air. @npub1pgh…5g4d

2024-08-19 23:12:51 UTC

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The last time I read a paper on the UV option at the legal maximum for exposure, it takes maybe 16 minutes to kill 95% of the virus in the air. This is still useful for sanitizing private air for unmasking, but it would need to actually deliver N95 quality filtration in under a second to handle a conversation with a sick person. @npub1pgh…5g4d

2024-08-17 15:01:23 UTC

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while I am sure there could be a better mask, the N99 I wear is pretty comfortable. Cleaning the air will never directly deal with Covid though. Short range interaction with people is the largest transmission source, indoors and out, because of the intensity of the aerosols so close to the source a partial second away, while air cleaning takes 15 minutes. Technology that immediately shows whether covid is in the air… that might change things. @npub1gdt…g9jd

2024-08-16 20:23:40 UTC

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This needs a reevaluation. Public health’s assumptions were too few and inappropriate masks worn wrong, with the implicit idea that you will get covid but hopefully transmit to fewer people, keeping the hospitals from overflowing. That is no longer the situation. The appropriate mask for your exposure can perfectly block covid. And a valve makes that mask last longer (less water in the mask), transmit your voice better, and overall more wearable. 1 @npub1pgh…5g4d