Thread by @NjbBari3

#EbolaIsAirborne

And by that I mean avoid inhaling infectious aerosol in addition to other precautions. Use a respirator. Ventilate the room.

Don’t believe me? Think I’m anxious? If you are right, you feel rightfully annoyed about wearing your respirator for a bit.

If I’m right… 🤒+\-🪦 (+🪦🪦🪦 of people it spread to).

Yes, yes people have tried using droplet precautions for Ebola.

No… no it’s not a good idea.

Frankly I think droplet precautions should be scrapped, abandoned, retired completely and immediately.

Either protect the respiratory tract with a respirator, or with other means until you can get a respirator, or be darned sure it is not able to transmit via the resp route.

By other means until you can get a respirator is purely because one might find oneself in a situation where that is not possible, then you have to improvise/manage somehow, but that should be a temporary thing!

After 2.5yrs of COVID-19, every HCW on the planet should have one!

So, dear NHS workers, while perusing the monkeypox guidance… did you notice which column Ebola is in?

If there is an outbreak… are you going to be bravely going where sane people don’t go with a dinner lady apron on?

https://twitter.com/LC_UK_Action/status/1527952992472907776

At some point, we have to draw the line. Might as well draw right now… otherwise it’s going to get really ridiculous.

SARS2 is deadly enough, is causing enough illness, is disrupting healthcare and the economy, and it’s airborne.

I think the consequences are high enough.

*dinner person now. Was all ladies at my school… in the Cretaceous period.