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10 Things that would have been different/better had we embraced airborne transmission from the beginning, instead of contact/droplet.
A thread à la @1goodtern style (ternstyle?). 1/
A thread à la @1goodtern style (ternstyle?). 1/
1) Fewer hospital outbreaks, causing fewer patient deaths.
2) Fewer hospital outbreaks, causing fewer prolonged hospital admissions impacting lives, the health care system, and taxpayers.
3) Fewer hospital outbreaks, causing fewer HCW acute illnesses impacting staffing.
4) Fewer hospital outbreaks, causing fewer HCW chronic illnesses impacting staffing and people's lives
(can you sense a theme here?)
(can you sense a theme here?)
5) No need to wipe down groceries for the first umpteen months of the pandemic.
6) No need for visitor restrictions to LTC, at any point, so long as both people are wearing respirator masks
7) installation of filtration systems, and improving ventilation in schools, results in fewer schoolkid and teacher illnesses, therefore better education
8) Points #1-4 applied to LTC facilities
9) Points #3-4 applied to all workplaces
10) Greater trust in public health and governments from a public honoured with the knowledge that they can be trusted with the truth.
11) higher efficacy of mitigation measures would have meant smaller shorter waves, decreasing impact on all our lives
12) much higher chance of achieving elimination (COVID-zero) goals, had we opted for that objective
13) decreased spending on useless interventions like plexiglass in restaurants
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