💡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. #COVID19propublica.org/article/why-op…
5) “Until we recognise that #COVID19 is airborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”
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 🧵.
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…
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.
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
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.
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.”