My understanding is that Yellowstone blowing would take a couple years off the calendar, not much more. I believe Pinatubo bought us what, 5 years? Ain't nuthin' but I imagine the folx in Pinatubo's shadow would rather have foregone the eruption. What's your pulse-ox? mine hasn't been above 96 since March 2020. I also ended up with a fuckton of inflammation. If you have the insurance for it, get a cardiology consult 'cuz COVID is fuckin' mean to the heart. Mine told me that COVID was the equivalent of a heart attack for me. And because it fucks with your heart'n'lungs, "dying in your sleep" is a thing post-COVID does to you.
This was harder to find modeling for Yellowstone on than expected given the Yellowstone craze in early 2010s, and existing data of Pinatubo. Below quote’s source #2 98, so pretty good, considering my general doctor offered up a CT scan with contrast and waived co-pay to look for clots. The way we discussed it, the urgency isn’t there, and more likely than not, I’m young enough that we should re-visit after 4 months IF I’m still finding breathing less-than-effortless. I’ve found it seems to be the top of my lungs providing more resistance to air… Ahywho, the doc stated pretty plainly they could run an ECG, but couldn’t do anything even if something shows up. Close family friend is a cardiologist who will provide prelim advice before I consider a local heart doc. Losing sleep over that fact will reduce the chances, right?My understanding is that Yellowstone blowing would take a couple years off the calendar, not much more. I believe Pinatubo bought us what, 5 years? Ain't nuthin' but I imagine the folx in Pinatubo's shadow would rather have foregone the eruption.
The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines was about 1,000 times smaller than Yellowstone’s largest known eruption; it caused temporary, yet measurable, changes in global temperatures. The sulfur dioxide emitted from the volcano interacted with the atmosphere, which cooled the Earth’s surface for three years following the eruption. At the height of the impact, global temperatures dropped by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit (0.7 degrees Celsius).
Several eruptions during the past century have caused a decline in the average temperature at the Earth's surface of up to half a degree (Fahrenheit scale) for periods of one to three years. The climactic eruption of Mount Pinatubo on June 15, 1991, was one of the largest eruptions of the twentieth century and injected a 20-million ton (metric scale) sulfur dioxide cloud into the stratosphere at an altitude of more than 20 miles. The Pinatubo cloud was the largest sulfur dioxide cloud ever observed in the stratosphere since the beginning of such observations by satellites in 1978.
And because it fucks with your heart'n'lungs, "dying in your sleep" is a thing post-COVID does to you.|
So two days ago I was at my in-laws' house, and my kid was messing with my mother-in-law's pulse oximeter. To show him how it worked I put it on my finger, and it read 96. I was like, hmmm, this thing is broken. So I tested it on my son and my mother-in-law. Both 99. WTF? I had just had a covid booster the day before, and all day I felt like dogshit all day, and then the next day (yesterday) I felt like I was having asthma all day. Couldn't take a deep breath without coughing, etc. That doesn't appear to be one of the known side-effects of the Pfizer vaccine, but I wonder if I discovered a new one. Anyway, I have a new found appreciation for you and others who have been struggling with long term low oxygen. I was struggling after 2 days! Feel better today, but I'm definitely going to remeasure to make sure there's nothing there anymore.