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.
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.
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).