What happened in Central Europe on Oct 10-13 so that many people started to become ill? Nothing significant happened on Oct 10-13. But the nights turned cool and heating was needed everywhere overnight from Oct 9.
h/t Dennis
What happened in Central Europe on Oct 10-13 so that many people started to become ill? Nothing significant happened on Oct 10-13. But the nights turned cool and heating was needed everywhere overnight from Oct 9.
h/t Dennis
Well as Dr Ryan Cole noted there is no such thing as “flu season”. We however go into a period of lower daylight hours of sunshine resulting in, surprise, surprise, low natural vitamin D production. Low vitamin D is linked to Covid-21…
Thus a good idea to supplement one’s diet with vitamin D as numerous studies on this blog have indicated.
Secondly, of note as Dr Byram Bridle noted this is 4.5 to 6 months after the big mRNA genetic goo campaign; thus the pseudo-vaccine is wearing off.
But no it is the fault of the UNVAXXED!! 🙂
How many unvaxxed are there left now with 80-90 % compliance with mRNA genetic goo? Kinda hard to continue playing the blame game, when the unvaxxed have all but disappeared.
Well except for us unbroken, and unbowed, to the mRNA genetic goo gods; who have had the temerity to have survived. 🙂
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
It’ll be interesting to watch the UK, which has just turned cool* after a sustained mild autumn.
*No laughing, Canadians.
There’s a reason saunas are popular in Scandinavia. It’s also important to note that the author is talking about a change in absolute humidity, not sustained low absolute humidity.
Running a humidifier in winter may not be the answer. Many houses would do quite poor. The house needs to be completely sealed and moisture managed or you could get condensation, rotting, and mold growth.
However what if we instead slowly dehumidified before the sudden change? Make it gradual.
A completely sealed house is and always has been a bad idea. If small amounts of supplemental humidity is added, the leaks in the house would buffer any rapid change. (This is, in fact, how many of our houses in the northern hemisphere run.) Over-engineered solutions are very often under-managed in real life. H
I recall a tragic story from the Netherlands in the late 80’s I believe, two parents and two or three kids died in their townhouse over a weekend. The townhouse had upgraded insulation and was basically hermetically sealed. They just ran out of oxygen.
Masks then may inadvertently help in that a person is re-breathing a little bit of air moisturized by themselves.
Moisturized mostly carbon dioxide.
New houses, at least here in Ontario, that are built to code are so sealed up tight it’s mandatory to have air exchangers. So how does that work in a carbon neutral fantasy world? But the government will give households in these air tight houses a subsidy to upgrade their windows to triple pane, and other some such nonsense.
Haven’t these builders heard of a fresh air intake on the furnace?
L – Houses/apartments with radiator heating retain humidity better and can more easily be adjusted to healthier levels.
Forced air heating, in the winter, is the equivalent of making your upper respiratory system try to survive a 24/7 giant hair dryer.
Make sure that you have an open window in your bedroom.
50% relative humidity.
Sometimes the windows sweat but that’s why God made sponges. Just line ’em up on the window sill.
I thought COVID waves only break when “vaccinations” or boosters reach some hand-waved level, determined after the fact.
Don’t disparage triple glazed windows. You can sit right next to them when it is -40. You definnitely won’t do that next to a double glazed. But a few air leaks around your door frame won’t kill you and will freshen your room.
I’ve heated my houses with wood my whole adult life (50 yrs) and do it by choice. I do have a nat gas furnace in my present home but have probably, (rough guess), put less than 400 hours on it in 20 yrs. I keep a kettle of water on the heater throughout the firing season and some windows cracked varying degrees depending on the outside temperature. My windows aren’t as tight as they are getting on but I have no intention of upgrading them as they’re fine with wood heat.
The house is always toasty and I live in shorts and t-shirts most of the time.
The benefits for me with wood heat are the constant steady temperature with none of that up and down temp. fluctuation of forced air AND the quiet of not having to bear with a noisy fan blower forever kicking in and out.
Of course as I said the being able to open windows for fresh air without breaking the bank is an added bonus.
Also cutting and stacking wood, amongst other strenuous physical activity throughout my life has kept me in pretty good physical shape and helped me stay out of the pocket of big pharma. I surprise doctors when they ask me what meds I’m on and I reply nothing but daily vitamins .
I am getting on in years and hope I can continue with wood heat for some time yet. It is the best and I view it as pro active.
I’m going to go with, “what are ‘booster shots’?, Alex.”
At least, that’s what’s happening nearly everywhere else in response to them.
I would add that the seasonality bit is to distract from the real culprit.