Notices by sleepfreeparent (sleepfreeparent@kolektiva.social)

Periodic #reminder that #longCOVID establishes persistent viral reservoirs and fucks with your T cells, damaging your learned #ImmuneSystem over the course of years. It reduces your CD4 T cell counts.

What other virus do you know that does this? 🤔

Our governments have abandoned us to #COVID. Stay safe as you can out there, and #MaskUp

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01724-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01601-2

@riotmuffin @lookitmychicken I too have seen such statements about n95s longevity. I also recently saw some work looking at the aerosol filtration over time that was talking about how the electrets in the filter can lose charge over time, especially with high humidity. N95s work because these permanently charged fibers exert force on small particles as they pass through, causing collisions.

I may have even boosted a toot referencing it, but I can't even search my own feed on mastodon so now I can't find it anymore. Anyway that work was recommending approx 20 hours. I'll post a link if I find it again

@Radical_EgoCom a few months max, assuming we cut down to the bare essentials.

This is a big part of what separates us from the ruling class. Everyone else has a number like this, they can just coast along on generational wealth for as long as they want