All you need to know about the strident defence of certain threads on here by members of the @WHO is that the two parties have a working relationship.
I posted the above, because of the outrageousness of this post.
My comment, which I'll repost so I don't drag others into this thread:

"Seeing this was unbelievable. Supporting a thread by suggesting anyone against it is attacking in bad faith, AND has been warned, AND that they've been spoken to and have not listened.

Wow. Just wow."
As I have said before in other contexts: science is political.
Side note: Vietnam, South Korea, Japan all focus on airborne in different ways and have done well.

Uraguay: Uh, BMJ said it was doing well in September. 1500 cases and 45 or so deaths.

By December it had lost control.

BMJ pic 1. Current cases pic 2.
Yes he WHO promulgates guidance but cannot enforce it. But when it promotes incorrect guidance, orgs follow it, which is not helpful. That's the big picture issue here. Not that the WHO is to blame for country response. That's a straw man.
Also 5um is incorrect for any discussion of air particles. Its not up for debate. Its simply wrong. Its transposed from a different topic entorely, by mistake, in the literature.
5um has never been proven etc.

See 2d para or so.

bmj.com/content/370/bm…
Almost 3m deaths so far. Could be telling people stay out of enclosed spaces like restaurants, not gather woth only 2m distance, hospitals could be using N95s, etc. But we want to srgue definitions for clear guidance.

Public can decide whether this makes any sense whatsoever.
Nobody's saying it is the key to ending the pandemic. That's another cheap straw man (straw person?).

It's just EASY LOW HANGING FRUIT. And it matches the science, which droplet does not.
Agree w this that essentially many of the countries that did best IGNORED advice from WHO, contrary to how the revisionists may desperately want the opposite to be true.

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21 Mar
We accept chickenpox is in the air, and this is what was said about it in 1980.

Sound familiar?

Even the denial is the same as we see today.
Airborne spread has never been UNEQUIVOCALLY demonstrated
[ed: onus much?]

Low secondary attack
[ed: next you'll be referring to R0]

What a bore. Come up with new excuses.
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21 Mar
Remember that rubbish bin case we all said it was not the bin it was in the air.

AS WE SAID IT WAS IN THE AIR.

This isnt a guess. It is based on 120 years of studies, physics, and biology. Epidemiology needs to sort itself out.
But in fairness, not NZ epidemiology. They sequenced genes and solved this and changed its practises to match. Wow.

Here in Canada we
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11 Mar
What errors have we made?

Oh, let's whip up a quick thread.

Tired of this.
Starting with all the things said that I want proof of

JAMA article full of fallacies, to defend droplet. Consider them examples. Some are still being repeated.

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11 Mar
Hmm. Asking for specific examples of situations where virus transmitted when people not wearing masks. First of all, asking a lawyer in private practice? How is the lawyer to know the answer to this?

This is why politics is broken. This is stupid theatre.
And there's the answer, population data shows masks work but of course you cannot show individual cases (because we cannot track virus entering body and causing infection).

Thank you for the clean-up.
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11 Mar
Wu Lien-teh in 1917 saying it is clear that plague infested marmots infect each other through their breath.

Modern PH/ID/IPAC would say "cannot extrapolate from marmots to humans" but we know what I think of that nonsense, disproven repeatedly

archive.org/details/jstor-…

cc/@kiai
Can spread without symptoms/pre-symptomatic.
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8 Mar
Some public health truths, in the guise of a joke.

A short thread in seven parts.
ONE

Virus is not airborne. We know. trust us on this.
TWO

So, wash hands. There's no real proof of respiratory viruses travelling by fomite, but it's our story.
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