Climate change and long COVID

[Amw66]

The Sick Times are looking at what climate change means for those with long COVID

Changes to weather patterns and extreme events have wider impacts for chronically ill .
Seeking input from people in American South who have had to cope recently with ice storms , but also previous events .

It's worth wider discussion

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[Zibby]

I have, was born and grew up in the USA Southern East-coast the past 60 years. Have been in all kinds of storms and honestly, not sure what all the noise is in the last decade about this. It’s weather lol! Always going to change and we will always have storms just like they did many years ago. We can adjust and move on, and in another decade I do believe it will change more. This is the nature of our earth and the locations we live.

As far as health, I personally don’t do good with the heat, so I don’t live in the hottest areas and live in the middle as to where we get 4 seasons - it’s very nice!

 

[BrightCandle]

The hotter summers have been a real issue the past few years, I have found my peak survival temperature is 27C (I would prefer 25), beyond that I can't get up and my breathing shallows. I had to get a portable AC for those extreme heat days but the issue is the noise and being stuck out of bed, can't just rest properly those days at all. The portable doesn't cope well above 32C either so I likely need a proper installed mini split at some point to solve my issues but it's too expensive.

My minimum temperature is 18C, my hands and feet go numb below that and I can't hold things or stand properly. Heating is easier and hasn't been an issue so far other than gas prices and just the cost of it.

At the moment it's the heat events causing me issues not so much the storms but if it rains badly enough I won't be in a state to save much of the contents.

 

[Kitty]

in another decade I do believe it will change more

Yep. Parts of the world will become unliveable before too long, which will create even more refugee crises as people (many of them from the poorest communities of southeast Asia) are forced out of their homes.

Alternatively we could do something to prevent it.

 

[Zibby]

Lol, not what I was eluding too! It’s just nature, this is how our world was made - nothing new, this hot/cold has been going on for thousands of years. It will continue. I do not believe with the exception of Antarctica/North Pole, that the places we can live in now will be where we cannot live there again. Granted it may be uncomfortable, but in another decade or so it will be back to where it was.

Isn’t it a blessing that we can move! I did, but mostly due to health. That is to my knowledge all we can do about it on a human level.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

but in another decade or so it will be back to where it was.

That isn't what the graphs look like or what the glaciers in the Apls look like. One glacier I used to ski on has retreated over a mile. There is no way that is going to grow back in a hundred years.

And most people do not have the opportunity to move. And if they do they may be told they are not welcome.

 

[Zibby]

That isn't what the graphs look like or what the glaciers in the Apls look like. One glacier I used to ski on has retreated over a mile. There is no way that is going to grow back in a hundred years.

And most people do not have the opportunity to move. And if they do they may be told they are not welcome.

I understand the graphs, and yes they move just like the weather changes! Your skiing may have to be elsewhere for the next few decades if this is happening there. I trust that they will move back however depending on age many will not live long enough to know it - maybe the graphs you’re looking at isn’t going back far enough?

If folks dive deeper what I believe they will see is that this is a natural occurrence that our world goes through. I also believe it’s being used politically, however, politics don’t have anything to do with what is naturally occurring.

Hope you all have a wonderful week, our weather is cooling down a bit and that is wonderful in the Spring time!

Blessings

 

[EndME]

If folks dive deeper what I believe they will see is that this is a natural occurrence that our world goes through.

There is a difference between certain global weather dynamics changing, as they will always do, to questions surrounding human influence on certain changes as well as other influences that feed back into such dynamics. Things are probably not any easier to predict and model out, then when Sir George Stokes was using a feather to write in his notebook, but I don't think "diving deeper" would lead anybody to see something that isn't already apparent to the large majority working with this data today.

 

[DHagen]

I don't think "diving deeper" would lead anybody to see something that isn't already apparent to the large majority working with this data today.

"Large majority" here should be understood to denote a fraction so close to unanimity it can reasonably be treated as such, as has been the case for decades.