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31 Dec 21, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The enormous fire yesterday a few miles south of us. 500+ homes destroyed, some friends lost everything.

Fueled by climate change (driest Jul-Dec on record, hurricane-force winds (likely made stronger by unusually strong thermal contrast). Why we need to #EndFossilFuels
A view from the air:

And a video taken by the police that could be from a Hollywood disaster movie:

And one of the most poignant pictures: hospital staff looking out the window at the fire as they work on caring for COVID patients.

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Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez Profile picture
30 Dec 21
ON LOGICAL FALLACIES & TWITTER.

Before the pandemic I didn't use Twitter much. Now I am becoming an expert on the many types of logical fallacies that people who do NOT have any arguments use to try to discredit scientists

A good list here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f…
When people do not reply to the arguments being made, doesn't provide data or analysis, often resort to various types of ad hominem attacks

Take it as a compliment (you won argument, they have nothing else to say) & disengage

If they insult, then block

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
3/ I've decided to catalogue and respond here to some of the most common things I am confronted with, in an attempt to diminish my expertise, question my motives, and turn people against me in general.
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25 Dec 21
The @CDCofBC doesn't know jack sh*t about airborne transmission.

OF COURSE distance reduces transmission for airborne! Exhaled virus-containing aerosols are far more concentrated near the infected person.

This has been misinterpreted for a century as "droplet transmission" Image
They are repeating the error of Alexander Langmuir (later of the @CDCgov) in the 1940s, which led them to erroneously underestimate the importance of airborne transmission for many diseases.
Details in this thread:
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24 Dec 21
87/ MEXICO: very poor ventilation in movie theater @Cinemex (Pabellón Cuauhtémoc)

2300 ppm CO2 = ~5% of air that people breathe is "second-hand air", that has been in someone else's lungs before

Without distance, eating/drinking (so no masks) etc.

88/ CANADA (BC @PHSAofBC): Top Public Health Official B. Henry in incredible collection of errors and denial of science during 2021

- denying obvious airborne
- denying that masks protect against aerosols
- denying school transmission
- so many more...

89/ MEXICO: (Guadalajara, @FILGuadalajara) cabins for spraying disinfectants on people before entering the Book Fair

For an airborne virus (who.int/news-room/ques…) that goes poorly, if at all, thru surfaces (cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…)

HT @miricaiba Image
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19 Dec 21
1/ Examples of GOOD PRACTICES worldwide to stop transmission, given that #COVIDisAirborne

There are many BAD examples in a separate thread (), that others should avoid.

Here I will try to compile some of the good examples that others should copy.
2G/ UK Government: "COVID is like smoke" with a clear visualization:

[Note that many countries have both good and bad examples. Such is the situation we are in, as @WHO et al. don't provide a strong message that would lead to the good mssgs prevailing]

3G/ FRANCE, government: good visualization of the behavior of airborne aerosols indoors, and the impact of ventilation.

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17 Dec 21
1/ Sobre el origen de la COVID

Es un tema en q no soy experto. Al principio casi todos los virólogos decían q era origen natural

Mi impresión actual es q origen natural (de animal) o q un virus natural contagiase a un investigador en Wuhan son los 2 posibles. No se sabe seguro
2/ Leo los debates, y ese es mi resumen por ahora: las 2 hipótesis tienen buenos argumentos y son plausibles. No hay uno q sea claramente cierto o falso.

Si les interesa el debate, gente a la q seguir incluye @MichaelWorobey, @Ayjchan, @c_drosten y otros virólogos
@MichaelWorobey @Ayjchan @c_drosten 3/ Los medios chinos andan echando balones fuera. Si es verdad, por ocultarlo, y si no lo es, para que no se les acuse injustamente.

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15 Dec 21
1/ So @mvankerkhove of @WHO has admitted that #COVIDisAirborne, but they avoid saying it on purpose

Does she think that decision has harmed the public health response, or cost lives? No, she says. "People know what they need to do to protect themselves"

wired.com/story/the-teen… Image
2/ I beg do differ. I think that decision by @WHO is one of the LARGEST ERRORS IN THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Let's compile evidence of how govts and organizations either don't know how to protect their citizens, or use @WHO's ambiguity to avoid doing so

Pls reply w/ examples!
3/ CANADA: TODAY telling a top airborne transmission scientist (@linseymarr) that she needs to remove her respirator and put on a leaky surgical mask, before sharing the air in a bus! As the highly transmissible AIRBORNE Omicron grows exponentially

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