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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.

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@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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Dec 17
@neiljshaw - — a few tips on your excellent article from a clean air advocate

"Consider Wearing a Mask" ?

No, "It is incredibly important to wear a well-fitting mask such as a N95, KN95, or KF94, for the best protection."

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public health with this article.

Public health is best done with simple clear instructions.

No:
"These masks act as a barrier, reducing the spread of respiratory droplets when people talk, sneeze or cough."

Yes:
"These masks act as a HEPA air cleaner for the face,
cleaning the air of respiratory aerosols when people breathe, talk, sneeze or cough."

The barrier carries the idea of an immovable wall. Unable to be penetrated by things like oxygen and CO2 - which feeds antimaskers.

As an who debunks antimaskers, it is
Read 9 tweets
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Dec 11
As an anonymous clean air advocate, I've put a bit of thought into how to present, well, my expertise.

If someone were to say, "How do I know you know what you are talking about? Are you a doctor, or a virologist?"

To which, I would say...."No, but that's a good thing.
/1
I have focused on aerosol and masking science. Because it is those fields that give us the most information on how airborne particles, aerosols, get from Person A to Person B.

My expertise is derived from the great studies of Dr. Lindsay Marr, MacArthur recipient. Dr. Prather,
double National Academy member, Dr Milton, inventor of the Gesundheit, aerosol scientist and medical doctor; Dr Coleman whose group found that duckbill N95s captured 98% of emitted respiratory aerosols, and more excellent individual aerosol scientists.
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Nov 22
I am not a fan of nasal sprays to stop The 'Vid, but I respect you having it as a layer in the Swiss cheese package.

But, some people have said they got bloody noses.

While at the ER yesterday, I picked up a pretty good at home technique. Let our $1,000 lay-out
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save you money.

Use tongue depressors to make a nose pinch clamp.

Leave it on for 30 minutes. Still a problem? Two sprays of Afrin, and re-apply nose pinch clamp. Wait 30 minutes.

Still a problem? Cotton balls sprayed with Afrin, clamp, 30 minutes

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Afrin- in generic form is $3.32 at Walmart.

Also, put a ice compress at the back of the neck, while doing the above.

"Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose"

✅ I agree with the authors.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1568881/Image
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Nov 13
A study demonstrated 100% PERFECT protection against SARS2 w/ readily available KF94s

✅ 181 HCWs
✅ 1 got SARS2 antibodies, but an epi investigation -> the infection happened elsewhere.
😡 The final checkpoint was March 2021. N95s only became freely available 1 month later
/1 FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN (Associated Press) April 23, 2021 12:44 p.m. Medical providers may soon return to using one medical N95 mask per patient, a practice that was suspended during the pandemic due to deadly supply shortages
What is described in the tweets
in the USA.

Korean study:
jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10…

This is in comparison to a Swiss study during the same rough time-frame. A study which did NOT show the same excellent results, but dismal results. Why?

The Swiss had the same sort of fit testing,

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35123572/ Results: We enrolled 3259 participants from nine healthcare institutions, whereof 716 (22%) preferentially used FFP2. Among these, 81/716 (11%) reported a SARS-CoV-2-positive swab, compared to 352/2543 (14%) surgical mask users; seroconversion was documented in 85/656 (13%) FFP2 and 426/2255 (19%) surgical mask users. Adjusted for baseline characteristics, COVID-19 exposure, and risk behaviour, FFP2 use was non-significantly associated with decreased risk for SARS-CoV-2-positive swab (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 0.8, 95% CI 0.6-1.0) and seroconversion (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0.7, 95% CI ...
PPE monitoring.

What was the big difference?

Are N95s/FFP2s inferior to KF94s?

No, it was supply - and other reasons.
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Nov 5
@tomhanks has just been savaged by people screaming masks don't work.

All hospitals have fiduciary responsibilities to not waste money.

Here is a light sampling of hospitals mandating masks because they work.

Proving that not only do masks work, but mask mandates work.

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Health PEI
Start/End: October 14, 2025 , How many hospitals: 7, employee count: 4,967,

Public hospital,

City: Various (e.g., Charlottetown, Summerside), Province: Prince Edward Island, Country: Canada, full url: princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/health…
Horizon Health Network
Start/End: September 3, 2025 How many hospitals: 12, employee count: 15,000, public or private:

Public hospital.

City: Various (e.g., Saint John, Fredericton),
Province: New Brunswick,
Country: Canada horizonnb.ca/coronavirus-co…
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Nov 2
Thread of debunking the myth that "babies should not be masked."

A baby uninfected is better than a baby infected.

If you oppose masking babies, you are immediately for infecting babies.

Let's get to it. A most excellent instruction page on how to mask babies. Suck it antimaskers.
This solves an equity problem.

Not everyone has the money or technical skill to build a baby buggy PAPR.

Just like not everyone has the money to buy an adult PAPR.

Are you for people on SNAP being able to protect their babies? Or not?

Most can rustle up the money to buy some uber cute baby masks!

This is the link from the baby zine.

These need to be fit tested.

Now, let's get into the good stuff. The "OMG Laz has gone too far! We've got him!"

You better bring your A game.

aliexpress.us/item/325680749…
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