Thread by @jmcrookston

So the droplet people said viruses travel in droplets only. Two metres.

But ... How would that work? And nobody could cite support.

I got suspicious.

A thread.

I looked for something that proved droplet and found nothing.

That's right, not a single atudy proves droplet transmission.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1415368175592562696?s=20

But I could find a lot proving things airborne:

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1332441254601383936?s=20

I looked for the origin of droplet and found it was some guy's guess ... in 1912.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1301635464139624450?s=20

I found that im the 1930s droplet theory had been ripped apart:

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1299386110070620165

They say droplets fall on things and you touch them. I actually looked for support for fomites, and found little.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1334851435444531200

They said only TB, measles, and chickenpox was airborne

I found many more

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1314688030171594752?s=20

I also found TB, measles, and chickenpox all used to be considered droplet before they were considered airborne

1. TB

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1302772100860702724?s=20

2. Measles

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1297250473448222720?s=20

3. Chickenpox

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1399521073834627075?s=20

And

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1373744561705644037?s=20

And then I rolled it all up. All by January 2021.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1347930399595495425?s=20

Even the WHO, trying to prove droplet, ended up accidentally proving things are airborne

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1322387896050065409?s=20

What a farce.

#covidisairborne

P.S.

It's been proven, in fact.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1659434899567267841?s=2

In short:



If I could figure this out, enough people knew or could do so as well.

They didn't, likely because of panic myth and ego.

Sad.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1347930399595495425?s=20

Later, in October 2021, I put together all the airborne review articles that I could find.

These are overview articles, not studies, meaning they're chalk full of studies.

There were more than I expected.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1446874228188487684

Then here's a bonus thread about denial and panic myth.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1425031267628863502

If you liked this thread donate to my Subs--oh I don't have.

Ah, follow me on YouT--hmm don't have that either.

Okay then, give my boss a tag and get me a rais--oh, can't get one of those.

Well, I guess just wear an N95 and be safe then.

Oh thought of something you could go read our history of airborne etc. Disclosure: I am a coauthor. @jljcolorado spearheaded it. Follow him too.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1644783353894191115

On the denial point:

https://twitter.com/WillRoche/status/1348206783614087168?s=20

Oh this thread is fun

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1529062269820076032?s=20

I ended up banging out a very brief summary of airborne transmission from 1850 to 2024, here:

https://x.com/jmcrookston/status/1779498089922908255

I just noticed "chock full" in one of my old posts was auto corrected to "chalk full".

This makes me think of clapping chalk eraser brushes in school; the clouds of chalk dust would float quite a while.

Well, those particles were much larger than particles containing viruses...