Few days back, came across the thought that future generations will be surprised that we could manage a vaccine for a pandemic so quickly and yet could not manage equitable distribution for the vaccine. A 🧵 on potentially what else about the pandemic would surprise 1/
2) That it took so long for public health bodies to accept the fact that a respiratory tract infection, that can be exhaled by infected individuals, can also be inhaled by vulnerable individuals.
4) That masks with better #fit and #filtration would not be accepted to be better protection - FFP3 vs FRSM
5) That the whole idea of providing the best available protection to health care workers will be dragged along for over 1.5 years.
6) That unlike the Operation Wrap speed for vaccines, there was no significant effort to ramp up production of better quality masks or for producing a good filtration, reusable, well fitting mask. h/t @paul_hammant
7) That the idea of using HEPA filters to clean room air would be considered controversial
8) That poorly ventilated indoors would be considered the aberration, while every existing evidence points to poor ventilation being a widespread problem
9) That precautionary principle was so difficult to implement when dealing with a pandemic
10) That precautionary principle was not considered appropriate when dealing with children's health
11) That a lot of people wanted schools open, but no one wanted to take the time to improve the indoor environment of those classrooms so that infections could be mitigated.
12) That people want to discuss vaccine equity as soon as they became available, but there was no outcry over information inequity when the #airborne nature of #Covid19 was not clearly communicated to the public.
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