Letter is full of fallacies and erroneous reasoning. It gets precautionary wrong. On top of all that, it manages to sound whiny.
And it's wrong.
Each and every one will regret signing that.
Quite literally a respiratory pandemic mutating to be worse every day, everybody worried about immune escape, and these people are saying n95s in warm zones will discourage people from getting tested.
I applaud their ability to ignore the bigger picture I mean, I really do.
Psychologists!
Question:
When people are confronted with something so big they cannot handle is it a thing that they simply shut down and start regurgitating whatever they are familiar with?
Is this a thing?
Machine translated. 2 pages of letter, 5 pages of signatures.
nb right off the bat, the 5 um elementary school physics error makes an appearance..
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(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.)
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.