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Most of it due to the flawed way our society is made.

My life safety plan has been:

Fire Alarm - Your space is no longer safe, leave as swift and safe as you can

CO2 Alarm - Your space is no longer safe, leave as swift and safe as you can

Bugler/ Intruder Alarm - Your space is no longer safe, leave as swift and safe as you can (because you don’t have a panic room or fire power)

Doorbell/Knocks from solicitors/strangers - Your space is no longer safe to leave, try to establish panic room

Visits from family and friends you wish were strangers- Your space is no longer safe, go into panic room if possible and if they are staying over leave as swift and safe as you can

Phone calls - Your number is no longer safe. Not much you can do here but start over and make all calls from a google voice or blocked number.

Roaches - Your home is no longer yours. That’s their home and their things now, leave as swift and safe as you can

I feel prepared for anything pretty much

I'll agree to that. Seems like there was a stigma when I was growing up at calling 911 at the "wrong time" and that it was serious to do so. It's definitely medically relevant here, though.

CO is almost identical to air so it entirely depends on the source. It will eventually evenly disperse but if it’s coming from a leak in the floor or a leak in the basement, it will build up along the floor and slowly dissipate into the air around

You should just call 911. This is one of those things that is just better to make a big deal of and let them tell you that you were wrong. You could walk around the house thinking, nothings wrong, the co alarm is faulty. When I’m actuality it’s building up along the floor and slowly climbing.

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Of course it's Florida

You can buy online, like on amazon. You can get it from context.

Yes thank your mom for that or the nice person who made sure you had the clothes on your back that you went shopping for your own clothes the first time.

My parents did that for me. I did that for my children and other children too.

There needs to be something wrong with your body in order for CO2 to have that effect. It’s extremely good at buffering the carbon in your system, between respiratory drives and metabolic drives. You have to be exposed to such incredibly high levels for such a long time to overwhelm that system and even then, if you’re healthy, you just need fresh air and water. Your body will do the rest.

Usually a person with CO2 problems is someone with a problem of discharging it from the body. Respiratory or kidney failure type patients, certain types of cancers, muscular loss, or neurological injury patients. Hell, it’s more common for a lack of CO2 to be a deadly or life altering problem than it is too much because some long term respiratory patients become dependent on high CO2 levels in the body to breathe instead of being dependent on low O2 levels.

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What?

I gotchu

Also, I said call the fire department first to call the all clear - if it is accumulated enough to kill someone, they theoretically wouldn't give the all clear.

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Make sure its safe to fix it first, and last I checked, you need a license to move and change gas lines from the city, even if you might not for gas being fed from a tank. You can use the outside valve to turn it off to help stop the broken appliance from producing more co, but you can't mess with the inside of the appliance, or the hoses to the appliance without a licence.

You were good until you started telling people to fix things. Do not do that. Do not try to do that. Ever. Your detector might go off in your living room on the main floor and you’re like, I got this. Let me go shut off the furnace and I should be good. Down the basement stairs we go anddddd we’re dead. Why? CO settles and becomes super concentrated very quickly. There’s a reason that the fire department wears their SCBA when venting and investigating CO call outs. Especially when there’s symptoms.

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Your body can detect CO2 in your blood stream. See: https://youtube.com/shorts/nleE-VEb_dU?feature=share

CO2 isn't a fucking concern in commercial or residential settings you fucking moron

I don’t know if this changes in other countries or anything, but call 911 (emergency services) not your gas company.