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This is actually really really weird for me. I went through extreme benzo withdrawal a few years back, I think about a year or two before this fucker did. I couldn't afford a clinic in Russia to put me in a coma for it, so I just had to go through over a month of repeated seizures, severe constant full body and head pain, sleeping only a single hour every few days, eventual psychosis, and then months more of post acute symptoms. It's been years and I never truly recovered, having permanent nervous system pathology and pain. I managed to avoid covid by being a complete shut in, and only leaving my little garage-converted house house once a month to buy bulk food with food stamps. And sometimes doctor appointments. Because since the withdrawal I developed some kind of chronic autoimmune disorder. Or something, because it hasn't been diagnosed since I don't have money to see specialists, but the doctors I do see know I have some very serious but uncommon problems. I spent the small amount I did have saved to be able to see a doctor I liked but had to stop after a few sessions because I couldn't afford it anymore This doctor was dead certain my problem was/is mold exposure causing all these severe but seemingly disparate, otherwise unexplained symptoms. But because I have nowhere else to go except a tent on the street somewhere, and because there's not a chance in hell the place I'm staying will be able to get examined, let alone treated for mold, I just have to keep "living" with it. I'm not even totally sure it is mold causing all my (really fucking weird) health issues, but it does seem to line up.
It's just so strange to me how much my own health problems mirrored the issues of this evil pile of human trash. In contrast though, I don't eat meat, not ever. Maybe that's why I'm not yet quite dying in the hospital like this asshole. I am mostly vegan but sometimes just have to take what I can get. But to have my health ruined by benzodiazepine withdrawal a couple years before it's in the news because of this shitstain, and now to read he's hospitalized due to the exact same thing that I've been told is the root of my health problems that make me want to [cw] [redact myself] every day. The similarities bother me.
Decent stopgap but still not truly safe solution to your situation is an air filter running 24/7 and regularly replacing the filter monthly. It Will at least dramatically cut down on the spores youre breathing in.
A cheap $20 box fan with regular $10-15household air filters taped to it is extremely effective. At filtering the aur
Its actually much more effective than buying fancy HEPA air filters. Not by filtering smaller particles but by moving WAY more air through a slightly less effective filter for said small particles.
This is good advice, and I am doing that. I have 2 air filters I run all the time, one of them is a HEPA that was gifted to me long before all this started. I also keep windows open and basic fans placed to try to displace as much inside air with outside air as I can. It does make a difference.
Would a mask help during the damper months?
Or would it be counterproductive if it ends up capturing it on mask? I have no experience in this, but during the post-covid time, by wearing a mask(even a cloth one) I noticed a lot of the stuff that's in our air, from vehicle smoke to dust from construction work.
Have you talked about this on Chapo or Asklemmy? Maybe you can get some ideas and then look into experts on it?
Have heard about reddit threads suggesting solutions for issues and I do think it's mostly hopium and copium, but using it as a starting point rather than pro advice maybe ok?