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87/ So what the 5 micron error really reveals is a key sociological aspect. Despite droplet infection being a hypothesis without much evidence, it was SO dominant that the experts didn't even bother with the details, and ignored aerosol experts and their work.
88/ In reality, droplet infection is a house of cards.
From Y. Li's review of the scientific literature: It has NEVER been demonstrated directly for ANY disease in the history of medicine!
[If you have a paper that proves otherwise, pls send it to me]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302183
![88/ In reality, droplet infection is a house of cards. From Y. Li's review of the scientific literature: It has NEVER been demonstrated directly for ANY disease in the history of medicine! [If you have a paper that proves otherwise, pls send it to me] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302183](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E06eW5dVEAUtmMR.png "88/ In reality, droplet infection is a house of cards. From Y. Li's review of the scientific literature: It has NEVER been demonstrated directly for ANY disease in the history of medicine! [If you have a paper that proves otherwise, pls send it to me] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302183")
From Y. Li's review of the scientific literature: It has NEVER been demonstrated directly for ANY disease in the history of medicine!
[If you have a paper that proves otherwise, pls send it to me]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302183
89/ Ease of infection in close proximity could be explained by droplets, but can also be explained by aerosols.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.022
90/ Lack of infection w/ shared air can be explained by some people not exhaling infective virus. Shown for SARS-CoV-2 (slide, )
As for measles for 7 decades, droplet proponents have a HIDDEN assumption: everyone infected sheds lots of infective virus
https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1283
As for measles for 7 decades, droplet proponents have a HIDDEN assumption: everyone infected sheds lots of infective virus
https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1283
91/ We explain other myths about airborne transmission that have no basis, yet they are constantly repeated by e.g. major @WHO advisors and Public Health authorities around the world to justify droplet transmission of COVID and deny airborne transmission.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.022
92/ During the last many decades, with antibiotics, vaccines, and no huge pandemics, these details of transmission had not been a priority. Droplet experts were in control of all key institutions, could ignore few airborne proponents.
93/ E.g. colleagues mention that often they would write a research proposal to fund a study of airborne transmission.
And the anonymous peer-reviews would come back saying "airborne transmission is not important, therefore we shouldn't waste funding on this."
And the anonymous peer-reviews would come back saying "airborne transmission is not important, therefore we shouldn't waste funding on this."
94/ When I started working on this in Feb. 2020, it seemed that the airborne transmission experts were VERY shy, compared to the significant evidence in favor of airborne.
With time I realized they had PTSD from being ignored and ridiculed over decades! https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1390770560653737988
With time I realized they had PTSD from being ignored and ridiculed over decades! https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1390770560653737988
95/ So it is with this background that @WHO confidently declared on 28-March-2020 that "FACT: COVID is NOT AIRBORNE".
And that saying it was airborne was MISINFORMATION, that we need to help @WHO fight! https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en
And that saying it was airborne was MISINFORMATION, that we need to help @WHO fight! https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en
96/ Lidia Morawska organized an international group of scientists to talk to @WHO, which we did on 3-Apr-2020.
I found that meeting shocking, couldn't get my head around why the @WHO experts were SOOOO dismissive of airborne.
I found that meeting shocking, couldn't get my head around why the @WHO experts were SOOOO dismissive of airborne.
97/ @Don_Milton said the super-strong anti-airborne prejudice was due to history and this Chapin fellow.
I was very perplexed. But I started reading on the history and talking to people. And I learned in the last year what I have told you today.
I was very perplexed. But I started reading on the history and talking to people. And I learned in the last year what I have told you today.
98/ So yours truly and 100s of scientists have spent the last year working on this, as exemplified by this depiction:
99/ Cleary droplet theory is sinking, unable to explain the observations. Still its proponents are resorting to the equivalent of epicycles, trying to save a failing theory by adding patches like "situational airborne"
But Thomas Kuhn is coming for them w/ a paradigm shift...
But Thomas Kuhn is coming for them w/ a paradigm shift...
100/ Our work is not done. It is critical to tell the world loud and clear that this virus is airborne, 1-on-1 in close proximity and 1-to-several in shared room air.
The message, and the changes in mitigations, have not arrived to many countries, or not clearly.
The message, and the changes in mitigations, have not arrived to many countries, or not clearly.
101/ OK, I'll leave it there for today. But if you made it to here, please answer this question. Should I do something with this thread?
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