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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12... by sokoloff on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:54AM (#25081044)
Pressurized airliners have about 15 air changes per hour or 3-4x what’s typical in an office building. This is air exchanges with the outside, not filtration cycles which are in addition. Even if the filters were entirely INOP, I suspect you’re no worse off than sitting in an office building.

Now, I’m not doing that right now, but there’s little reason to think major US carriers aren’t doing what they say they’re doing and if the air change mechanism wasn’t working, you’d see oxygen masks deploying as that’s the mechanism by which the aircraft remains pressurized.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12... by moron4hire on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:37AM (#25081513)
Sitting in an office building is one of the worst places you can be for avoiding getting sick.
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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12... by treeman79 on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:12AM (#25081779)
Kids kind of makes it all pointless. They catch everything and bring it home.

It was nice not being sick for so many months.

2 weeks after they went back. Bam, everyone sick.

And that’s with intense mask rules and distancing

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12... by superkuh on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:38AM (#25081965)
You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that we can't take other measures to get back below R=1. The primary one I can think of is for governments of the world to give long term contracts to N95 mask makers so they can fully spin up their factories. It's been 9 months for $diety's sake.

Non-fit homemade and non-rated masks help prevent others from getting sick. But if everyone had access to cheap N95 that actually prevented them from getting sick we'd be a lot better off. The kids would still be getting it and getting everyone sick at home/school because they wouldn't wear them consistently right, but people without kids at home wouldn't be getting sick at nearly the rate. Every bit counts.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12... by artursapek on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:45AM (#25084113)
Maybe the masks and distancing don't actually work?
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