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2 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Woo hoo! Citizen science! Concerned citizen succeeds in swaying decades of aerosol science and the great Fauci! #FauciEmails
Reminder of what the science actually said back then, though even Dr. Fauci appears not to have taken the time to read up on the growing understanding that respiratory aerosols (0.1-1.0 micron, med 0.28) were the driver of flu & other respiratory viruses
If this email doesn't show how badly Dr. Fauci misunderstands the behavior and volume of aerosols, and research on flu for the prior 12 years, don't know what does. No wonder he recommended cloth masks.
Dentists know that surgical masks don't protect from COVID-19, and other viruses, but the CDC doesn't... (or Dr. Fauci)
Wherein the danger of fomites is raised above the risk of aerosols, via mechanistic, and you guessed it, modeling studies. Why don't they ever follow these up with studies with actual people, and naturally generated aerosols?
Wait, on April 3rd, Dr. Fauci says we should all be wearing masks, but tells a hospital administrator to keep the policy for employees voluntary on April 16th? So confusing.
All the problems of the "protect everyone" approach we adopted in one email. Speaking on behalf of the home care industry, she advocates lowering PPE thresholds for Cv-19 caregivers. Meaning that caregiver, and other clients they serve will be infected. So many better solutions.

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Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK Profile picture
27 May
1/
 It's now acknowledged that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted by tiny aerosols generated through NORMAL breathing—not coughing, or flying spit globules.
Based on what we already KNEW about these respiratory aerosols, this should have meant MASKS OUT.

thesmileproject.global/post/airborne-…
2/
This is because we know that these aerosols are nearly identical in size to cigarette smoke (see last tweet). Cigarette smoke, and by extension, the respiratory aerosols carrying COVID are NOT STOPPED by masks, or caught. They are redirected—see video.
3/
 And yet, we have this kind of dishonesty from people like Bill Nye. He talks about “stopping the flow of air.” Yet he, just as everyone else who has worn a mask, must have felt the air escaping out the top of the mask--fluttering his eye lashes--during this demonstration.
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Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK Profile picture
5 May
1/
 Mass. is terrorizing its children. In TWO COVID seasons, there were 293 TOTAL pediatric HOSPITALIZATIONS—
<1/3 the usual number for ONE flu season.
In 2 seasons, 13 TOTAL deaths ~= to 1 flu season. The pediatric CASE fatality rate, in MA is 0.006% = to the ped IFR for flu.
2/
 The CDC recently released an updated disease burden for COVID-19. While they did not include deaths, those are easy to append. There, too, we see the infection fatality rate for children for COVID is MUCH lower than flu.
3/
 This is certainly an overestimate due to attribution of deaths as COVID deaths, simply based on a prior positive test for COVID, regardless of whether it was a contributing factor—the Director of the Illinois DPH explains below
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Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK Profile picture
15 Apr
*POW!!*

An organization that is supposed to defend children actually *gasp* defending children!!

Vaxes are a godsend for the vulnerable.

The case different case for school kids, whose IFR is 0.001%.
1/
ca.childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/upl…
Below, the IFR for school age children calculated from the CDC's most recent infection estimates, and deaths through 2 weeks after.

Any trial would be healthy children, whose risk might literally be zero, and is certainly approaching to 1:1 M
2/
thesmileproject.global/post/un-maskin…
Again, the vaxes are a god-send to the vulnerable.

It is because the CDC is refuses to use its own data to help people understand their relative risk, that people who are at serious risk for the disease have had one vax option removed now.

More misfeasance by the CDC.
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Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK Profile picture
9 Apr
1/
 Masks don’t work to stop COVID, though they work wonders keeping kids out of school & unemployment high

But WHY don’t they work? Let’s see

Rather than thinking of respiratory aerosols like tiny spit globules, a better metaphor is cigarette smoke

2/
 Cigarette smoke is almost the exact same size as 99% of virus-carrying breath aerosols-- <1 micron. The majority of these particles are in the 0.2 – 0.25 micron range--just like the majority of breath aerosols.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Image
3/
 This is the EXACT range of breath aerosols. The chart below shows that out of around 11K breath aerosols generated during 5” of breathing, only about 25 are over 1 micron~0.02%. 90% are <0.3 microns—the exact same size & distribution as cigarette smoke.
pnas.org/content/118/8/… Image
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Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK Profile picture
31 Mar
1/
Masks ARE political. They have no basis in science—except perhaps political science—and have ZERO impact on COVID deaths or cases.

Pitched as no-cost interventions they are in-truth linked to incredible societal harms--visited in proportion to their adoption.
2/
While there is no linkage between masking and COVID deaths, they are linked to ultra-low levels of in-person schooling.

If these two charts were flipped, masks would be a no-brainer. That they are not means masks—and the fear they generate—are causing grave harm.
3/
 Masks are also linked to significantly higher levels of unemployment—driving closures in services industries, and generally making people afraid of engaging with each other. The brunt of this is borne by blue states with strong mask mandates.
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20 Mar
In Oregon: Public comment period for permanent masking and distancing closes on April 2nd

We are watching the cultural equivalent of prohibition being instated by regulators— happening at federal level too

Once in place only legislation can overturn

osha.oregon.gov/news/2021/Page…
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