Oh, thank you for disillusioning us. I thought modern medicine already had solved the problem of immortality and all of us were just too smug to consider it 1/
The problem with statements like this is they want to reduce medicine into disease care and forget about health care. 2/
If small measures like living in well ventilated spaces, wearing a mask when not feeling well, filtering air when there are pollutants can help keep people healthy, they are worth investing in, pandemic or not 3/
And yes, we are all going to die one day. I can even forego the question of how I die. What is important is how we live. Mortality is not the only issue at hand. Morbidity is also an important consideration. 4/
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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.
3) That the idea of #filtering the air we breathe (#masking) could be so controversial
The word Swaraj is a sacred word, a Vedic word, meaning self-rule and self-restraint, and not freedom from all restraint... - M K Gandhi
"Freedom" should mean freedom to wear a mask to protect the society you are part of
"Freedom" should mean the self-restraint to stay indoors if you do not need to go out
"Freedom" should mean avoiding crowding to protect yourself and others
I will tell you the story of an open #window which did not work, from personal experience. Short 🧵on prescriptive vs performance based guidance 1/
2) Over the past 8-10 months, I have force-fed family members and close friends my opinion on how #COVID19 is #Airborne and so irrespective of govt. or public health bodies guidance, they are more or less aware of preventive measures that could work.
3) So, they are aware of the need for ventilation and why it works. They know they need to open a window and why they need to do so (not just because "I told you so").
The Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India @PrinSciAdvGoI came out with guidelines on mitigation yesterday. A short 🧵delving further into them 1/
2) This will be biased since I admire and respect the authors - so that is my admission.
3) Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Authors provide arguments in favour of their position and detractors are free to come after these points, if they can
Situational #Airborne is not a real thing if the so-called situations are the norm! A 🧵 of these situations, likely to contain many places or situations you too frequent 1/
2) In a long bus journey - quite normal for many people commuting between home and work places