Thread by @PaulNuki

1/5 I find the debate over aerosol transmission very odd. It's perfectly clear respiratory viruses spread that way in part at least, and has been for years. It raises some important questions for Western science ...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

2/ First, why the reluctance to accept what is so clearly evidenced? My guess is that like so much necessary but avoided pandemic planning, it's all about resources and long established (but incorrect) professional group think ...

3/ If you accept respiratory viruses can spread via aerosols, you need to rethink the design of countless systems, buildings and public health protocols. It's a huge job which disrupts everything. It's therefore one we would prefer to avoid, or "park" in the language of PHE...

4/ Western science may also, in retrospect, be seen to have a very particular bias arising from the fight against the big infectious killers of the 19th and 20th centuries, most of them water borne. "We didn't struggle against all that miasma bollocks for 200 yrs for nothing!"

5/ A reluctance to engage with aerosol transmission may even underpin the nonsense about the west being prepared for flu but not Covid. Flu was seen as unstoppable but for reasons never properly explained. That was not the case in mask wearing parts of the world like Singapore...