Thread by @LazarusLong13

It's not often @sailorrooscout and I find ourselves kind of on the same side of an issue.

They will probably not appreciate my airborne position (will link in the end), but we can agree to disagree in that case.

@benryanwriter is intent on reporting

https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1551595498674470914?s=20&t=UPjEFGu4pboU1yU1un_ICg

according to official reports?

Interesting. Because back on June 5, his position seems pretty solidified.

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https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1533536014634999810?s=20&t=lrkhyDvrXnMnTgX2hZ4iwg

What has happened since June 5th?

The CDC removed recommendations for masks on June 6th

Seems to support Ben's position, correct?

beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/…

In an article titled, "Monkeypox can be airborne, too" the CDC's leading monkeypox expert Andrea McCollum said this was not a disease that transmitted over several meters. (Not true, see my thread for studies showing this).

archive.ph/VmtJX

But interestingly, in the very next paragraph? She acknowledges the possibility of airborne transmission.

The leading CDC monkeypox expert, @benryanwriter .

Seems like that's worthy of reporting on, and following up on.

Interestingly, McCollum noted that masks helped prevent transmission of Monkeypox in a flight back in 2021.

gpb.org/news/2021/08/1…

She said something interesting there. Monkeypox requires close contact for a long period of time?

If a disease is truly droplet based, then I should be able to have someone cough at me with my mouth open, and catch it.

Immediately.

If it is fomite based, then I should be

able to lick a doorknob and catch it. Immediately.

But that's not what she said.

She says it takes a long time. What builds in concentration over time?

Droplets? Fomites?

Aerosols. Which are airborne.

This building of concentration of aerosols also plays a role in Ben's

favorite study to prove his point.

"528 global cases found just 0.6% were from household transmission; 95% were likely transmitted via sex between men."

Like I told him before, that just reflects it's spreading in the male

https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1550883152905781248?s=20&t=lrkhyDvrXnMnTgX2hZ4iwg

homosexual community.

That it really hasn't jumped to other communities.

But, I was curious about household transmission. This was the same argument used against CoVid. Low HT, so can't be airborne.

Hit ye olde scholar.google.com.

Didn't even have to scroll down.

Household attack rate of 50%. That is high, @benryanwriter.

Like I said, household attack rate was used to say CoVid wasn't airborne.

Here's why that logic does not work.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Countries can have different housing styles. New houses in the US tend to be energy efficient. Which tends to mean, not very good ventilation.

Homes in Africa differ too, depending on the region.

Bad ventilation means aerosols build in concentration.

Aerosols concentrating

means a greater amount of inhalation, so lesser transmissible diseases like WT CoVid and the current MPX in the west, have a greater chance of infection.

Ok, enough of that for today.

@sailorrooscout, for your attacking pleasure, the #MonkeypoxIsAirborne thread is below. Just added the air sampling study.

Rumor has it that Lednicky is working on harvesting viable virus from the air - but I have not confirmed it yet.

https://twitter.com/LazarusLong13/status/1551078241787555841?s=20&t=hca5DAfa7MATI8jk2KSN8A

Finally, of course, it is not just airborne.

Sexual, fomites, droplets, etc.

This virus is a beast of stability. 90 hours viable in aerosols as opposed to 16 for CoVid.

We should all be wearing N95s, wearing condoms, and washing our hands so it doesn't get a chance to mutate.