The great thing about living in a country where air conditioning is mostly non-existent, is that when the weather is nice enough they will just open up all the windows and doors.
Today kid2 and a friend went to an indoor playground thing. It is in an old warehouse. The doors for loading the warehouse were open (2 sets of doors), the skylights were open... there was natural ventilation. Where the CO2 spiked above 800ppm: the toilets.
Our respirators stayed on. Drinks were had right next to the open doors.

#IndoorCO2 #CleanTheAir #MaskUpButtercup

randomly remembering a video somebody sent me sometime in 2020/2021 that purportedly showed people packaging swabs for Covid tests…
It showed the inside of a small room with only one window. There were some people that looked SE Asian in the video. One of them was operating a machine that would seal the swabs individually in plastic, another was cutting the plastic sticks to size, another was rolling cotton into small balls and the last one was sitting on the floor with the sticks and balls and combining them to make the swabs.
At the time I thought to myself that in their desperation some manufacturers might resort to buying swabs made under weird circumstances. And didn't think about it again.
Now, however, I know it was a propaganda video made to disconcert anyone who might want to go in for a test or buy a RAT… because the obvious message was "do you want to put a swab in your nose that someone has held in their brown feet?"
Humans are weird.
#MaskUpButtercup
Gestern sind das Kind und ich in den Stoffladen gegangen und als wir ihn betreten haben waren 3 von 4 Personen im Laden mit korrekt sitzender FFP2 (es war nur eine andere Kundin dort; die Verkäuferin trug keine Maske).
#MaskUpButtercup #DieMaskeBleibtAuf

I have been reliably informed that a teenager at my kids' school has been hospitalized with the flu.

#InfluenzaIsNotOver #MaskUpButtercup

Other variants may come and go, but JN.1 has some staying power in Nuremberg. (JN.1 is the variant that I caught at the end of 2023 and that the vaccine at the end of 2024 was targeted at.)
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUpButtercup

edit: screenshot is from here: https://bay-voc.lgl.bayern.de/abwassermonitoring
also took a better screenshot that tells you what all the little colors mean.

It is that time again when all the YouTubers mention that everyone in their household / their husband / they themselves are sick.
It could have been different.
Oh well.

#CovidIsNotOver #InfluenzaIsNotOver
#MaskUpButtercup

"Loss of smell and taste indicates the brain is impacted somehow and I'm not as smart as you, but I'd like to keep what I have, thankyouverymuch."

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskupButtercup

watch... notice the people who are not supposed to be on screen...
https://youtube.com/shorts/vZ3kcCMzG1c

#MaskUpButtercup

What is jordan's spice tolerance? 🥵

YouTube

Going through old screenshots again...

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUpButtercup