Thread by @LazarusLong13

Just occurred to me that the CDC is just making up stuff now.

Cover the lesion with a bandaid? Are you kidding me?

Literally, slapping a bandaid on a far greater problem.

Short 🧵 about threads.

Huh?

https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1554152488730869762

First and foremost, #monkeypoxIsAirborne. The CDC recommending a well-fitting mask? Shows that they know that.

You don't need a well-fitting mask for droplets. A face shield would work just fine.

(Thread on monkeypox being airborne in my pinned tweet, right at the top. )

Here's the next particular vexing part of the CDC's tweet.

They full well know those lesions are brimming with virii.

That's why the physical contact part is also a factor with monkeypox.

And know those virii fall into cloth.

Such as sheets.

metro.co.uk/2018/09/27/mon…

Now, she blamed her arms as having been bare as the culprit.

But WE know MPX's aerosols stay infectious for up to 90 hours.

And those aerosols can come from breathing them out, or the virii from the lesions (skin flakes, etc).

So, in the latter case, the aerosols fall on the

sheets, and then got fluffed up again into the air by her. And inhaled by her.

Back to the CDC. We've got your neighbor in the next apartment. At home, in his sweat pants. He's scratching the lesions because their itchy (clever daft virus bugger), and his clothes are

FULL of virii.

He decides he HAs to go out to get a pizza because the federal government has given him no support. Covers lesions with bandaids and gets on the elevator.

Nobody's on it, so he scratches a lesion or two, then gets off.

You nod at him as he walks out, and you

walk into an invisible just-shaken snow globe of virii and skin flakes.

You are in an N100, so are gtg.

But nice Mrs. Pierson gets in on the second floor.

In her surgical mask.

Why would the @CDCgov want to hurt nice Mrs. Pierson?