Thread by @jljcolorado

@Teddybird @krishlex @YouTube @gideonlasco @DOHgovph @ntfcovid19ph @iamguidodavid @friaronwater @WHO Yes, after yelling at us when we met with them (@WHO and its IPC committee) on 3-Apr-2020, when we already had MORE evidence of airborne transmission than they did for large droplets or fomites. + ignoring us later

This article tells some of that story:

wired.com/story/the-teen…

@Teddybird @krishlex @YouTube @gideonlasco @DOHgovph @ntfcovid19ph @iamguidodavid @friaronwater @WHO But still a GREAT example that proves YOUR statement right: "You need be cautious with dogmatic statements be cause lives are lost when the science and interpretation of evidence is wrong"

It WAS a dogmatic statement, and lots of lives have been lost, bc @WHO's science was wrong

@Teddybird @krishlex @YouTube @gideonlasco @DOHgovph @ntfcovid19ph @iamguidodavid @friaronwater @WHO And to this day, that statement still has an impact, as people in the medical profession that have public health power, refuse to accept the evidence FULLY: 0 evidence for droplets or surfaces, overwhelming evidence for airborne (short & long range).

See:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1471160707794276353

@Teddybird @krishlex @YouTube @gideonlasco @DOHgovph @ntfcovid19ph @iamguidodavid @friaronwater @WHO Philippines is well-represented in the bad examples of practices that waste resources but do NOT reduce transmission (or even increase it, like lateral plexiglas barriers), e.g.:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1471166990152867844

@Teddybird @krishlex @YouTube @gideonlasco @DOHgovph @ntfcovid19ph @iamguidodavid @friaronwater @WHO And another example of bad practices in PH:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1471883268781871105

@Teddybird @krishlex @YouTube @gideonlasco @DOHgovph @ntfcovid19ph @iamguidodavid @friaronwater @WHO And one more:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1478545694847873026