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@LazarusLong13
Feb 16, 2022 • 22 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
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This thread is intended to hold up a mirror to the World Health Organization.

If a disease is airborne, does it make a sound?
If the World's Public Health Organization recognizes CoVid as airborne, does it make a sound? (Psst - it's airborne!)

Or does it release it quietly 2 days before Christmas?

Let's take a tour of the WHO's official announcements that CoVid is Airborne.

There was none - functionally.

It was released the week before Christmas.

Quietly.
December 21, 2021, @DrMikeRyan put out this video from the WHO account:

Where he never uses the word airborne.

December 22, 2021. @PeterASinger, special advisor to Dr. Tedros, releases this quiet statement regarding update to mode of transmission.

Let me stress how grateful I am that the WHO finally recognized #CoVidisAirborne.

Since then, have we

seen a huge media push from the WHO?

No.

And the effects of that lack? Are noticeable.

We continue to see the most of the field of IPC (with the notable exceptions of @VicLeungIDdoc @EvonneTCurran @eliowa @kalisvar ) continue to insist that CoVid is not airborne.
We see this play out in hospitals across the world.

With surgical masks being deployed as clinically equivalent to N95's/ FFP2/ FFP3.

We also see this play out in public health departments around the world.

WHO -> Country CDC -> State/ Province Public Health -> County/
District Public Health Department.

In YOUR local department, do YOU see them saying CoVid is airborne?

No.

We need more from the WHO. They should be saturating the airwaves.

I should be sick of seeing "CoVid is airborne" in all the WHO twitter accounts I follow.
Here's the mirror that I mentioned - I wanted to be very careful to give credit where credit is due.

@DirOPSPAHO - kudos for being the only WHO regional director whose official Twitter account, @pahowho, has said CoVid is airborne.

twitter.com/search?q=from%…

Let's see the rest. Image
@doctorsoumya - chief scientist, but tweeting in her personal capacity per her profile page

Counts. But doesn't actually count. (Still thank you!)

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@DrTedros - anything he says from Twitter is official. Not tweeting in personal capacity.

Has not corrected the below tweet. And yes - the WHO has corrected tweets before.

I have the receipts.

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@DrMikeRyan - anything he says from Twitter is official. Not tweeting in personal capacity.

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@mvankerkhove - clearly labeled that she is the COVID-19 Technical Lead. Not tweeting in personal capacity.
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From @gabbystern

My apologies - there's no nuance anymore. CoVid is airborne. And we are still not ready.

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The official @WHO account.

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@takeshi_kasai's @WHOWPRO has not said #CoVidIsAirborne - nor corrected the tweet below.

You'll notice that TB is clearly labelled as airborne below this tweet.

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Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh's @WHOSEARO has NOT said #COVIDisAirborne. Nor corrected the below tweet.

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@MoetiTshidi's @WHOAFRO has NOT said #CovidIsAirborne. Has said TB is.

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Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari's @WHOEMRO has NOT said #COVIDisAirborne

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@hans_kluge's @WHO_Europe has NOT said #COVIDisAirborne

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At the start of every disaster movie, there's a scientist that's ignored.

Turns out there's also a World Health Organization that can easily let the world know loudly that CoVid is airborne. Image
Or not.

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"COVID IS OVER, YOU DON'T NEED THAT!"

Reason 4,657 on why I mask now that I understand aerosols and transmission. It's not all about COVID.

This is Chicago, but it's really Anytown, USA. Image
"The human DNA virome. Prevalences (%) of viral DNAs in the body (≥1 tissue positive for a virus) and in different organs as determined by qPCR or NGS"

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They think wrong ( this is not a subtweet at Dr. Johnson).

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How do we know TB is airborne?

71 guinea pigs gave their lives between 1956 and 1958 in the eponymous study by Riley et al, getting TB air piped in from some TB patients, to prove TB is airborne.

Influenza is kind of airborne per most doctors. But kind of not.

So....

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We need some volunteers.

Will horses be those volunteers that finally lay it all out?

Yes - but none of them lost their lives.

Air samplers were deployed and tracked horses inoculated with Equine influenza virus (EIV).

From the very first day post inoculation (dpi), until the Image
12th day, EIV was found in the air, in this new study.

With no horses, or guinea pigs, hurt in the process.



But sure, influenza's not airborne - if you are the USDA, right, @nirav_maine?

Of course, yet another new study points an accusatorysciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Thank you @BarryHunt008 for flagging this.

@ThailandMedicaX, retweeted by some because of their controversial takes (ahem, their lies?), is saying that FAR-UVC is dangerous because somehow the light will get into the lungs.

Lol.

They are just apparent supplement grifters.

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I noticed they were using @NukitToBeSure's excellent torches as their example picture.

Strange to be so selective of an example picture for someone purporting to be an independent news source on health.

Hmm. I helped defend Nukit against charges of Image
racism by a very nasty couple who it turned out just do not like UVC, personally. I wonder....

Yep, ThailandMedicalX has blocked me.

But, it's weird for a purported news source to block someone like me @gorskon
@doritmi @19joho.

And them blocking me, is probably because Image
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May 25
You've heard of "The Three Problem." - great book, and excellent Netflix series.

If you want to be avoid catching Covid, you probably have "The Empty Room" situation in the back of your mind.

How long after a room had people in it, can you safely demask?

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/1 3 body problem netflix cover showing a eye with a countdown running in it. That was a countdown to each person's death.
Measles was thought to be airborne after a child caught measles an hour after the infected child left the same office.

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Interestingly, you can see the reluctance in blue below to call measles airborne. Much like the WHO with @mvankerkhove researchgate.net/publication/19…In February 1981, a measles outbreak occurred in a pediatric practice in DeKalb County, GA. The source case, a 12-year-old boy vaccinated against measles at 11 1/2 months of age, was in the office for one hour on the second day of rash, primarily in a single examining room. On examination, he was noted to be coughing vigorously. Seven secondary cases of measles occurred due to exposure in the office. Four children had transient contact with the source patient as he entered or exited through the waiting room; only one of the four had face-to-face contact within 1 m of the source patient. The...
which spent millions to rebrand SARS2 as "through the air" rather than airborne.

It is an inconvenient truth that then leads us to the study showing an #EmptyRoom SARS2 infection at 1 hour and 43 minutes, and FOUR HOURS and FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.

In this study, it comes with Experimental evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 remains viable within aerosols with a half-life of approximately 1-3 hours, though changes in aerosol microenvironment may shorten viability to minutes. However, it remains unclear how long airborne SARS-CoV-2 can transmit infection. Whole genome sequencing of nasopharyngeal samples obtained from patients on an outbreak unit suggested in-room transmission of the delta variant, AY3 lineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to two patients admitted 1 hour, 43 minutes and 4 hours, 45 minutes after discharge of an asymptomatic infected patient. These findings suggest...
Diagram showing 1 hour and 43 minute and 4 hour and 45 minute infections.
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Mum's the word - if @SecKennedy is Mum.

You see, I have been a VERY FOCAL CDC critic. But you can't criticize without listening.

And I have been noticing that that the CDC has been very, very quiet.

NPR noticed as well. Image
This is crazy. Image
Yes, the @CDCgov has been deathly quiet.

90 times last year, versus 4 this year.

This is not MAHA.

This is MASA - Make America Silent Again.

And as one of the CDC's most focal critics? We NEED them to be sharing Public Health information. Image
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Fit factor of 250- 4000 versus the normal 100-200 for an N95? Where do I sign up?

Oops, that's here. With me. Starting a build with an Ebay'd Bullard EVA PAPR's filter - and some DIY loving goodness of a heat gun and PVC pipes.

The benefit of this build will be the over 10
hour run-time of the massive battery on the PAPR.
Got a long dental appointment? This will be the answer.

Let's get cracking!
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