Thread by @GreeneWendy

Many years from now, when historians look back on this pandemic, the stupidity of both the private and the public sectors will not go unnoticed. 1/

COVID is airborne. We now know that controlling the spread of the virus requires a multi-pronged approach. Although vaccines are incredibly important and helpful, vaccination alone can only go so far. Essentially, it decreases the severity of the illness in most people...

(sadly, less so in the elderly and the immuno-compromised), but as the virus mutates, the vaccine's sterilizing effect (protection from actually catching the virus) gets weaker and weaker. 3/

Masks are also an important tool, but people are fed up and refuse to use them. I know, the idea of never eating indoors at a restaurant is more than most people can take. 4/

Now, even the idea of wearing a mask at a grocery store is too much to ask of many people. 5/

But the real stupidity lies in society's utter refusal to do anything about air quality. In years to come, the world will shake its head at how nothing was done to rid the air of the virus. 6/

I suspect that today's complaints about the cost and complications related to air purification will be compared to how the public and private sectors in the mid-19th century no doubt initially refused to take any action to treat wastewater...

thus condemning millions of people to die of cholera. 8/

One day, air quality and air purification will be as ubiquitous as wastewater treatment (yes, yes, I know that we haven't solved that problem yet for our First Nations and it is a shameful stain on our country),...9/

...but for now with no mask mandates, COVID is running rampant. We are not learning to live with COVID, we are learning to give up to COVID. End of thread.