Posted on 11/25/2018 9:52:33 AM PST by antidemoncrat
Jessica Thompson told CBS News she and her roommate discovered mold on their shoes and clothes in their dorm back in August — and believes the fungus caused them to fall ill.
“You can’t sleep at night because the pillow is right next to mold and you’re up all night coughing,” Thompson said. “We got to go home on the weekends and we would be totally fine at home, and we would come back and would be sniffling and coughing and then have headaches.”
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Seems to me they should pay more attention to keeping their student safe.
Bleach is almost as cheap as water.
Mold and virus are not even remotely similar. It may be a contributor, as the article says, but it looks to me like people are searching for the deepest pockets.
Start using anti-fungal foot sprays, and use borax in the wash as well as in the water/cleaning solutions to do the floors and other household cleanings. Boron atoms inhibit the growth of a number of types of spores.
lol
Where’s the Adenovirus come from???
Adeno. I’m trying to find out.
Sorry...
Is this about mold or Trump?
That Dorm should consider putting Merry Maids on a longterm contract. This only after an Uber-Field Day of OCD level cleaning. Not fun, pleasant or inexpenisve either, but if you are requiring students to live on campus, the school has the responsibility to present a relatively clean place to stay.
Maybe offer a discount on the tuition if students bring their own sponge mops and dollar store windex.
Mold is everywhere
The usual way it effects humans is through a
weakened immune system or poor clearance of secretions
Viruses are a completely different Kingdom
I was thinking the exact same thing. Most dorm rooms are 15X15 cement boxes with one wooden closet. A solution of bleach, a sponge and 10 minutes of elbow grease would solve the problem
but our education-industrial complex would rather have an army of unionized state employees take "special action" at a cost of $several million.
I see the colleges are really educating them well. Mold and viruses are two different species and unrelated.
I buy houses rather frequently. I don’t go in without bleach and cleaning strength vinegar and baking soda. (Not to be used all at the same time, due to interactions.) Everything from top to bottom gets treated before anyone moves in.
The worst part of hotel and dorm living is fabric. Especially carpeting. My rule is, carpeting is always toxically filthy and the place cannot be truly clean if the carpeting remains.
The dorm (most any dorm) is probably as harmful to lungs as the curriculum is to brains.
I would say this....having seen serious mold in a Pentagon basement work area that I was responsible for...there is marginal mold and ‘bad’ mold. Until you have it tested and the expert says the type, I wouldn’t say much.
If you have some idiots come and do a renovation project or build a dorm with leaks (bad ones), then you are inviting a continuous mold issue and it’ll have to be something you attend to for months or years.
Years ago, I lived in a cheaply built military barracks and we were going to paint the room (moving the lockers out of the way), and here was this really serious black mold situation. We used bleach and a sponge, but I’m sure within six months it came back and it was a badly constructed building.
And yet another perfect demonstration of socialism.
Bleach is almost as cheap as water.
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My first thought also. Why in the name of heaven didn’t the girls scrub the offending areas rather than blame the university? Seems helpless little snowflakes cannot use their brains for anything but complaining about their “feelings.”
No. They need a ‘RoboMom’’ to shout “I want you should clean up this FILTHY room! Right now, do you here me young man!?! Do you think all I have to do all day is clean up after you?’’ Now get moving and tell those friends of yours you’re not going ANYWHERE until you do!’’ “Honestly, it’s not the work it’s the worry. Land Sakes, sometimes I wonder....
This reminds me. The trees in my backyard have all started sprouting a whitish/light green lichen. Kills them pretty quick no matter the tree type. Anyone have recommendations on what to use without killing the wife’s hostas/flowers etc?
These are two completely unrelated events. The mold is from condensation from a crappy HVAC system, and is a problem at many campuses in the DC area. Poor design and maintenance by the universities is to blame. From the photos I’ve seen on TV, it’s a serious problem.
The young woman who died from the adenovirus infection was being treated with immunosuppressant drugs for Crohn’s disease. That’s the risk that many who take such drugs for many autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn’s and rheumatoid arthritis take. Those people are at much higher risk from dying of infections that the rest of us would just fight off.
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