CORONAVIRUSES WERE NEVER DROPLET ONLY (an droplet is a meaningless term and should be redefined as "airborne but not that infectious")

FROM A 2016 TEXTBOOK. YOU KNOW, A BIG BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE Image
AND ASYMPTOMATIC CASES OF SARS.

C'MON people. Enough with just repeating talking points. Image
from this book by Dr Hui Image
Anyway whatever, I am getting tired of refuting the nonsense.

It's in the air. Nebulizers were blamed during SARS, but lots of weird transmissions happened.

As "people" often say there is no dichotomy so I do not even understand the "droplet" vs "airborne" arg.
It's in the air. We breathe it out.

Public health is bad at using air samplers.

When people who KNOW how to use them do, they can get live virus out of the air, for SARs, MERS, flu and many others.

BTW Dr. Hui used airborne precautions in HK for SARS

Enjoy the class actions
That textbook was definitely able to be located at the latest, July 2020.

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14 Apr
Just one more study in a long line ...

Did you know we've been killing ferrets since 1945 to show viruses travel in the air?

And then others complain they're ferrets not humans, missing the forest.

(Different strains in animals may yes be more transmissible. They mght bind less well to the recipient cell receptor. Or bind only to a receptor deeper in the lung. But this is observing how well, not how, they transmit.)
Poor ferrets Image
Read 11 tweets
12 Apr
Okay, apparently acne is trivial. I agree. It seemed a trivial thing to say.

So, let's focus on the impartial, unbiased science, right?

Because everybody's interested in truth, right?

Okay, let's go!

Uh oh, we know what that means.
A slide mentioned _no cultured SARS-CoV-2_.

It contained citations. Image
1. It quoted Santarpia, as a pre-print.

Unfortunately, Santarpia was later published in Nature. (nature.com/articles/s4159…)

And by the time it was published, Santarpia had cultured live SARS-CoV-2. See pic.

So.

Are we done? Image
Read 15 tweets
12 Apr
Media is now picking up on the senior @WHO advisor whose comment was NOT to provide N95 masks because they might lead to acne.

abc.net.au/radio/programs…

#COVIDisAirborne

Side note: his comment about decreased O2 is garbage. 3% diff, small N, and the ppl had no subjective effect
I have noted he has put this in print before.

The intro suggests the harms are severe, but pulling the _citations_, which I should not have to spend my time doing, revealed that they were about acne.

He also wrote this piece on behalf of the @WHO, which was meant to support droplets, but actually proved ventilation was great because they didn't check their citations well enough.

Read 15 tweets
6 Apr
Outbreak at Quebec gym now up to 171 people (not all at gym I am guessing) per CBC News At Six last night.

So that plexiglas and 6 feet did ... as everyone who knows aerosols said.

Filter the air. Ventilate. 6 feet not magic.
Anyone know any gyms that focussed on ventilation? Could see how they've done.
Anecdotal story of gym w ventilation in thread.

Yes cannot draw hard conclusions from one or two instances. This is in addition to all the other evidence. Also superspreading is random.

New variants more transmissible now, caution.

Still, this lesson repeats again and again
Read 22 tweets
5 Apr
"... because #COVIDisAirborne."

Fixed it.

Psst, in actual fact, @WHO's committee on COVID-19 transmission modes is logjammed by some of its members. They refuse to admit SARS-CoV-2 is in the air.

So @WHO has to quote any old doc mentioning "air" to get around its own committee
That's why the committee in July 2020 said they were "actively discussing" whether SARS-CoV-2 transmits in aerosols

(see pic, from who.int/news-room/comm…)

Not very actively, apparently, since it's April 2021 now and no change.
The clear statement that SARS-CoV-2 transmits via droplets (that fall to ground) is found also in @WHO's mask guidance from June 2020 @ apps.who.int/iris/handle/10….
Read 14 tweets
4 Apr
If only medical doctors can be called doctor in the media, then I demand we go back to calling surgeons "mister".
Backstory, see pic.

Apparently if it's anything like droplet theory, we should keep doing it for another hundred years.
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