Dear readers, I have a cold.
I think I picked it up at OMSI. We went to see the Lego dinosaur exhibit. I was masked, but I have a common rhinovirus right now, which spreads from surface contact. This particular exhibit had lots of hands on building stations, meaning many people were touching the same bricks over and over. I am pretty good about washing my hands, but I guess I was not good enough.
This will not kill me. It is pretty annoying and it does not help my issue of being constantly tired, but I will survive.
There are worse things to catch than a cold. Diseases currently spreading in the United States include Covid, measles, and whooping cough.
Making things worse, I am now reluctant to trust any information from the CDC.
I know that in February the US was still averaging around 350 Covid deaths weekly.
I know there had been some interesting breakthroughs in what is happening with long Covid, though it's going to take additional research and good medical care for that to matter.
Really, these are very discouraging times.
It's on us to do what we can to make things better.
Wear a mask when you are indoors in public spaces.
Actually, change that to "wear a respirator".
There is a lot of anti-masking sentiment, first directed against protesters, now against ICE. It makes sense, but none of the real or pretend ICE agents are wearing KN95, so let's start using our terms carefully.
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/personal-health-care-us/products/face-coverings-101/
Wash your hands frequently and thoroughly.
Consider adding an air purifier. You can still build one with an ordinary fan and filters, but there are commercial ones too. This may not only help with disease, but also with pollen and smoke from wildfires.
Imagine a world where people had taken COVID seriously and not allowed the spread and mutations.
Imagine a world where people had not started spreading ridiculous lies about vaccines, starting with Andrew Wakefield lying for financial gain.
I'd say imagine no Trump and RFKJr, but at that point we will just start to cry.
So in this very difficult time, do the best you can to make things better.
Related posts:
https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2025/02/im-not-swearing-at-you-this-time-but.html
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