1) Fact-checking government experts who speak about aerosol transmission with no understanding of it.
Dr Jalbert(40 min 22 : "If you are sitting and you don't shout loud, you will expel much less virus and the virus will go DOWN around you."
No about 85 %(maybe more) of the virus is transmitted through aerosols and they do not go down. Breath of hot air relative to room temperature goes up and follows the warm air plume rising around a human.
See this video.
As shown by this fluid dynamic simulation vs experiment. Note the speeds and the temperature of the breath. It goes up and so does the virus.
Published experts on Covid aerosol transmission even wonder if it might not be closer to 100 % because there are no proven transmission through fomites or droplets.
Yet most of our sanitary protocols only address fomite or droplet spread.
What about talking since Dr Jalbert has mentioned it?
Talking loud just produces more aerosols. Not bigger ones. (Rare splutters needs to infect by coming into contact with eyes, nostrils or an open mouth.)
Because a particle of :
- 0,5 micron can stay suspended in the air for 41 hours.(Virus will be inactivated before that.)
- 1 micron for 12 hours (some virus may remain active in air for as long as that)
- 10 micron about 8 minutes cdc.gov/niosh/topics/a…
What are the strategies needed to minimize airborne transmission?
Screenshot from a video of @ShellyMBoulder who is the lead author of the first paper which evaluated the number of infectious quanta emitted(Skagit choir.
Many of these strategies are set aside by M. Roberge back-to-school plan.
- No more masks in class
- No standard for ventilation or real time monitoring by CO2 meters
- No HEPA filtration
- Isolation protocol unknown.
All of this spells trouble with hyper transmissible Delta.
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1. Voici la première lettre d'opinion du regroupement canadien « Air sain, écoles saines (ASÉS) /Safe Air, Safe Schools (SASS)
« Si les autorités n'agissent pas convenablement, nous allons répéter le scénario dangereux de l’automne dernier. »
Voici des extraits de cette📧.
2. « En août 2022, le ministre 🇩🇪 de la Santé, Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) déclarait : « Ma fonction de ministre de la Santé m’interdit de laisser les enfants tomber malades en grand nombre. Il est irresponsable d’infecter toute une génération. »
@Karl_Lauterbach 3. « L’an dernier, en 2022, les autorités canadiennes ont été informées à plusieurs reprises des risques évoqués par M. Lauterbach, mais elles n’ont pas tenu compte de ces avertissements. »
In 2022, the drop in life expectancy was of 9 months in Québec which was "exceptional" according to @statquebec and comparable to 2020. Before the pandemic, life expectancy had been steadily on an upward trend since the 1940s.
I show in this graphic that many of the excess deaths from March 2020 through March 2022 were directly attributed to Covid. (With a lower mortality rate from other causes which is logical since we can only die once.)
Starting in March 2022, the proportion of Covid deaths was lower compared to 2020-21, but we know that Covid raises the all-cause mortality rate by 2.2 times upon reinfections for at least 6 months compared to individuals who were infected once.
1. « Nouvelle baisse de l’espérance de vie au Québec en 2022
La surmortalité liée à la pandémie de COVID-19 est en cause. »
Article d'@andrexnoel avec ma collaboration et les mots de la Dre Marie-Michelle Bellon (@Docteure19)
2. "L’espérance de vie avait chuté en 2020, en raison de la pandémie, puis avait retrouvé son niveau pré-pandémique en 2021, ce qui avait fait pousser un soupir de soulagement."
3. "Mais le nombre de décès est reparti à la hausse en 2022, si bien que l’espérance de vie a de nouveau baissé. Elle a diminué de neuf mois et c’est significatif."
🔹Baisse de 9⃣ mois
🔹espérance de vie : 82,3 ans, ce qui est comparable à 2020
"The removal of masks in healthcare settings is mind-boggling. It’s kind of in the same vein as if people were like, “Yeah, well, HIV is not new anymore, so people handling blood or contaminated material don’t need to wear gloves in a healthcare setting.” bu.edu/articles/2023/…
"But when we think about other kinds of emergencies—for example, during Hurricane Katrina—there’s an emergency response that happens right away, and then that transitions to a recovery plan that, long term, provides support: gets people housed, compensates people who lost things"
"Where’s the COVID recovery plan? If we’re ending the emergency, then we should be moving into the recovery phase, and that should mean coming up with a long-term plan, and providing support and compensation." - @EpiEllie
"Tens of millions cases of long COVID-19 have been diagnosed worldwide—certainly an undercount—with at least a third of those impacted suffering neurological or cardiovascular damage that is proving disabling."
"Worse, the virus remains in early stages of evolution, adapting not only to Homo sapiens, but dozens (if not hundreds) of other mammalian species ranging from hippos to anteaters. There is no inevitable trajectory for COVID-19."
"Those who liken the coronavirus to influenza have noted that the H1N1 form of flu that killed as many as 75 million to 100 million people in 1918-19 remains in circulation today, albeit in less lethal forms that most people experience as mild disease."
30 conditions that put persons at heightened risk of Covid complications and for which they should demand universal masking in health care settings, at work, or at school