[theshrike79]

CO2 fatigue is a thing.

At a company I used to work for we started wonder why one meeting room got especially rowdy if we had our 2 hour team meeting there.

Had the building management install a CO2 sensor, it got up to 1500ppm. We were practically drunk in there. Turned out it wasn't meant as a meeting room at all and it had zero ventilation ducts - they were all in the room next door, they had just slapped a wall to split it into two.

[koheripbal]

1500ppm isn't great, but "drunk" is hyperbole.

It might make you feel different - and maybe not great for being productive, but it would be hard to notice.

[philwelch]

That's less than half of what they keep the ISS at, BTW.

[koheripbal]

wow, you are right. Then again, I suspect they're challenged to keep it low given the space. Seems astronauts report headaches more above that level.

[philwelch]

I’m honestly just a huge skeptic about indoor CO2 levels. OSHA says 5000 ppm is a safe upper limit, and nuclear submarines operate at pretty high levels too. I strongly suspect this is just one of those weird social media health crazes.