Jennifer's great idea to make this chart, orig w/ measles, TB and COVID.
@rdumont99 kicked @JenniferKShea and I to update, @jljcolorado joined. I dumped 18 mo of studies in and we searched a few new. There are more out there.
ID/IPAC just followed preconceived notions, so when Hall in 1981 pointed away from air, having done a wholly inadequate sample size, it became the FOUNDATION fo RSV transmitting via droplet.
Enjoy the comments in these _pro-fomite articles_ that fomite couldn't sustain a flu epidemic, etc.
I have never found a single study proving droplet as mode of transmission (for resp diseases). All conjecture.
Math doesn't make sense
Isn't what we see in animals
Doesn't make sense evolutionarily
And was originally Chapin's _guess_ as to why people got sick when near ea other
Just remember the ladder of denial and elite panic myth means if you are hearing a 2 it's a 4. If a 4 it's a 6. If a 6 pack your bags. You'll never hear 8 and up the TV will just play static
Has anyone worked up the ladder of denial for bird flu?
- We have not found bird flu.
- We have found bird flu in one bird. There is no evidence of bird to bird transmission.
- We have found bird flu in many birds and there is bird to bird transmission but it has not moved to other mammals.
- We have found bird flu in a cow. However, we have not found evidence of cow to cow transmission.
- We have now found bird flu in many cows.
- We have now found evidence of cow to cow transmission but we do not know how this is happening.
- We found some bird flu in the milk. You should not worry because this might not be live virus. However, for some reason, we now think milk is the vector of transmission.
It means negative pressure rooms and N95s, which is why they desperately do not want COVID to be called "Airborne".
This is why, during SARS, when a roomful of Canadian doctors and nurses got sick even though they were using "Droplet precautions" (I'll capitalize) - that is, medical masks - they invented AGMP, so they could explain how a droplet virus infected people using Droplet Precautions.