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Coronavirus - Several Months On

cstanton

I can easily understate that this has been crazy. Four to six months ago for a lot of people, the scenario we're in now was unbelievable.

 

Over those months, members of the Community stepped up with fantastic suggestions, projects, activities and intentions. Especially in the areas of personally protective equipment.

 

Now that we're still in the the process of dealing with it, as some countries ease down the restrictions, and yet others are still finding ways to cope with it - how are you handling it and coping with it?

 

Are you still working on projects to help with the pandemic, or have things moved on for you?

 

Did you end up identifying more activities that you can help out with, or is the new state of affairs now a business as usual for you?

 

For myself I'm still hiding at home, however more and more is opening up and getting closer to how matters were before and less requests of support, but I know that isn't the case everywhere in the world.

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  • I am still tweaking protective measures - tonight I will be 3D printing some clips to permit easy adjustment of mask strap lengths. Masks are a new reality - might as well optimize the experience. Maybe I will make some that are a fashion statement.

    I am thinking about doing an experiment to see how mask use affects our CO2 intake. I suspect it is not a positive aspect of masks

    Things are supposedly "opening up" around here (phase III) but it is not like going back to normal, it is more like the new reality is just evolving as everything is done differently.

    I played hockey last night for the first time in months - that was a very hard workout given the state of my body. And there were lots of new rules. In softball we have to play in a bubble of a 4 team division etc.

    I have been going to work every day (deemed an essential service) with no outbreaks in the staff.

    I caught covid on a business trip back in Feb before I knew what it was, and had a tough time with it. Still have significant residual organ damage. I just did my normal flu isolation and nobody else caught it.

    The changes in operating procedures at work, and everywhere else, will be the new norm for a long time.

    It looks like I have to take another business trip to the USA next month and will have go into quarantine in a hotel when I return. Guess how keen I am on all that - risk of exposure, risk of becoming a carrier, no e14 project work in quarantine, no sports, no interaction with family and can't do normal chores to support everyone.

  • in reply to dougw

    > tonight I will be 3D printing some clips to permit easy adjustment of mask strap lengths

     

    I could totally do with something like this for the masks I have, which were custom sewn, but I have difficulty maintaining how tightly they're tied!

     

    > I am thinking about doing an experiment to see how mask use affects our CO2 intake. I suspect it is not a positive aspect of masks

     

    The measurements I've seen have been monitoring blood oxygen levels, what's your approach?

  • in reply to cstanton

    The mask strap clips worked well, but highlighted a small geometry issue in mask design with the first mask I tried. I am now thinking about a new clip design that also mitigates strap angle issues.

    I want to measure CO2 concentration in the intake air supply. Masks retain some exhaled air which is very high in CO2 and this gets re-breathed. The mask also reduces air velocity of exhaled air, which means more of it will stay near enough to get re-breathed. I want to explore if masks create a CO2 "bubble" of higher concentration CO2 around the user. I have a meter and some sensors which I think could all be used for this testing.

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  • in reply to cstanton

    The mask strap clips worked well, but highlighted a small geometry issue in mask design with the first mask I tried. I am now thinking about a new clip design that also mitigates strap angle issues.

    I want to measure CO2 concentration in the intake air supply. Masks retain some exhaled air which is very high in CO2 and this gets re-breathed. The mask also reduces air velocity of exhaled air, which means more of it will stay near enough to get re-breathed. I want to explore if masks create a CO2 "bubble" of higher concentration CO2 around the user. I have a meter and some sensors which I think could all be used for this testing.

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