Thread by @joeyfox85

ORIGIN OF THE HEPA FILTER LIES

I've been spending a lot of time recently debunking lies about HEPA filters. They have been propagated by school boards and politicians as an excuse to not put them in classrooms. Who started them?

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https://twitter.com/joeyfox85/status/1484357848821747717?s=20

In August 2020, I asked my kid's school to put HEPA filters in the classrooms. I was overruled by a public health official who raised these misguided concerns. For the record, this is no longer the case and the school is making great efforts to make the place safer.

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It's bad actors in IPAC, infectious disease physicians and public health officials who have been controlling the response to this pandemic. They still deny that #COVIDisAirborne . The politicians, media and school boards listen to them.

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There is unanimity amongst engineering organizations, engineers, air quality experts, aerosol scientists and airborne transmission researchers that HEPA filters are extremely beneficial. There is no debate about this, but we have been shut up and shut out of the response.

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In the summer of 2020 ASHRAE stated that aerosol transmission of COVID is significant enough that it needs to be mitigated.

Here is the unheeded call from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers to mitigate airborne transmission:

ospe.on.ca/featured/engin…

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Doctors who discuss ventilation or filtration with the media or schools should quote the unanimous opinion of engineering organizations and not offering their own uninformed lies.

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Science tables are ignoring engineers
PH officers/organizations are ignoring engineers
IPAC is ignoring engineers
ID specialists are ignoring engineers
School boards are ignoring engineers
Politicians are ignoring engineers

The pandemic will continue until this stops.

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