💡Reopening indoor dining after #COVID19 cases dropped during lockdown & hoping no outbreaks... is like switching back to eating bacon 🥓 after dropping your cholesterol from eating vegetarian for 1 month, and hoping bacon doesn’t hurt your arteries again.
2) Gentle reminder how a student in South Korea got infected in a restaurant from >20 feet away in just 5 min from an asymptomatic person. Indoor dining - do you trust epidemiologists & aerosol scientists, or trust a Governor who is under political pressure from restaurants?
3) Ventilation is critical in any indoor building. If any policy leader advocates indoor activity of any sort, they need to regulate and require sufficient ventilation. Even if masked.
4) AIRBORNE & NO MASK: Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What #SARSCoV2 Wants Us to Do

Reopening indoor dining before vaccinations become widespread could create superspreading playgrounds for variants & squander getting pandemic under control. #COVID19 propublica.org/article/why-op…
5) “Until we recognise that #COVID19 is airborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”

P.s. they don’t use masks in video because Australia 🇦🇺 is at almost #ZeroCovid #COVIDisAirborne

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16 Feb
Dirty stuff went down:

📌Texas electricity ⚡️ power plants didn’t want absorb the cost of natural gas surge. So it cut the power.

📌Texas @ERCOT_ISO gets the rules changed so power company can price gouge consumers—

All while folks freeze & vaccines spoil.

#texaspoweroutage
2) A smaller grid allows them monopoly control of the local electricity market too.
3) and failure to upgrade wind turbines with cold weather winterization package also pretty derelict. We have turbines on top of snow covered mountain tops and in the Arctic too, explained in the 🧵.
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16 Feb
“coats are a lie”

“If you look at the statistics for hypothermia, most of those people were wearing coats.”

That’s where we are folks. #COVID19

2) Vaccines work and the faster we vaccinate, the faster we can prevent the dangerous variants with immunity escape mutations. Image
3) because if we let the virus spread too long and broadly, this is what we end up with... escape variants! Image
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16 Feb
C’mon FLORIDA! I don’t wanna be that epidemiologist dude who has to remind @GovRonDeSantis daily that he has a civic responsibility to stop the outbreak of #B117 in his state & its spread to rest of 🇺🇸. B117 is more contagious #COVID19 & trouble. 🧵on why.
cdc.gov/coronavirus/20… Image
2) #B117 is surging, but especially in Florida. It is fastest surging there and doubling likely every 9 days, faster than the rest of the US.
3) Florida seems to be experiencing the faster rate of growth. (Maybe because @RonDeSantisFL @GovRonDeSantis hasn’t put in much mitigation). #B117 will become dominant in Florida sooner... likely by March 8th. It’s much more contagious too. Image
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Don’t praise DeSantis too soon... Florida is the fastest rising state for #B117 variant that is more contagious. B117 is poised to dominate as the majority variant by mid March. We might have a new surge in April if we aren’t careful in Florida and nationwide. #COVID19
2) #B117 is coming. And it is surging like a storm.
3) Don’t dismiss #B117 @RonDeSantisFL. It will stalk you if you let it spread.
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16 Feb
Get ready folks—Mars rover Perseverance is soon landing on Mars on Thursday! It’s the heaviest & hardest landing ever attempting — like landing a car on Mars, and stopping it from velocity of 12,000 miles/hours to zero.

By @JoelAchenbach @bbguari

washingtonpost.com/science/intera… Image
2) “Hitting the 4.8-mile-wide landing site targeted by NASA after a journey of 300 million miles is akin to throwing a dart from the White House and scoring a bull’s eye in Dallas.”
3) “This is one of NASA’s most important endeavors, the first multibillion-dollar Mars mission in nine years and the initial phase of a three-mission campaign to return samples of Martian soil to Earth.”
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16 Feb
How it started. How it’s going.

Maybe Texas leaders & @ERCOT_ISO should learn that for power grids, “sharing is caring”. #texaspoweroutage ImageImage
2) Most of the electric failure in Texas is due to thermal power outages. Image
3) Texas has a massive 21 GW deficit right now. Most isn’t from wind. Wind is down 2.6 GW from normal. But that is still small part of total deficit. Image
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