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Airplanes. Measles. 🧵

Measles Claimed 207,500 lives in 2019.

who.int/news/item/12-1…

CoVid claimed 3 million, although the official toll was 1,813,188.

who.int/data/stories/t…

For 2020 and 2021, aggregate, 18.2 million.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

And now? CoVid is as
transmissible as measles. Or almost as.

Yet airplane transmission minimizers would have us believe we can safely ride planes.

Let's take a quick look at what the USA does with measles exposure on flights. 👇👇

jstor.org/stable/20056711
That was for one case of measles on board.

WHY?

Why would the government go to all that effort if airborne diseases are NOT easily transmissible on airplanes?
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Ah we do everything again, and again, and again.

This from 1948.

"It's not as bad a whopping cough, stop freaking out"
Worry about a risk is normal .

Panic myth is a myth.

Humans repeat the same things again and again.

No, we cannot stop without training.

(And there may be some things like optimism bias/denial we can never quite get over.)
This was about psych

I leave to your homework to determine:
1. rate of polio, and outcomes;
2. compare/contrast with that of COVID-19.

Are they similar? Dissimilar? Do we know enough about COVID-19? Long-term/developmental? When will we see these things?
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It's widely accepted that #MeaslesIsAirborne

I summarized the evidence for airborne spread of Measles vs. COVID-19 in a table

The results were quite shocking to me ...

How is it that we are still discussing whether or not #COVIDisAirborne??

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The disease on the left is managed with airborne precautions, including respiratory protection (N95/respirator) and ventilation optimization

2/
In Canada, the disease on the right is still managed with droplet and contact precautions (gowns, gaping surgical masks with substandard filtration efficiencies, gloves, face shields and plenty of hygiene theatre)

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