Thread by @NjbBari3

Monkeypox is not transmitting as fast as smallpox because it’s not adapted well yet. In virus terms it’s just getting to know us. Smallpox took many, many years to become what it was.

But that doesn’t mean it is using a completely different tactics to transmit. #Aerosol

MPx is known to transmit in many ways… including aerosol in animal studies.

If I’m wrong, you wear a respirator for a couple of years and save yourself some COVID infections.

If I’m right, and we don’t act on this, it’s going to get grim.

PS. MPx has been classified as an airborne HCID since it was discovered. I’m not talking whacky science. I’m talking ordinary boring science.

The weirdest thing is “#MonkeyPoxIsAirborneToo” was the accepted dogma all this time… and we are downgrading it to #DropletDogma just as we see evidence of *MORE* transmission based on evidence PRIOR to the same.

The evidence until now is that it wasn’t spreading very efficiently.

Well for whatever reason, it’s now everywhere… efficient enough?

#monkeypox

Oh no, my apologies, this is not weird at all. SARS was airborne until SARS2.

From the outside, it looks like diseases are airborne until the guv’nor freaks out. Then the guidelines get updated faster than the tabloid news cycle. #DropletDogmaKills

You have to ask yourself, #monkeypox has been an active outbreak for decades in Africa.

The @WHO guidelines should have been constantly updated over that time.

Why downgrade to droplet now?