Wow they buried the lead.

COVID might be up to an R0 of 24, eating measles for breakfast. Very comparable at median of 11 to measles, which is probably 9 to 12.

Anyway from p. 19 iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

For anyone reading this, he means "Airborne" as in the three viruses that require Airborne precautions.

Those are _defined_ as TB, measles and chickenpox.

They are "airborne" because they are "Airborne."

It is totally ludicrous, yes.

https://twitter.com/PHealthGnome/status/1769701317964869785

It means negative pressure rooms and N95s, which is why they desperately do not want COVID to be called "Airborne".

⚠️Please people.

We are no longer calling it "fire".

It is "potentially harmful chemical combustion energy output". This of course means the fire department will be renamed as well.

It will be called the "organization for the suppression of potentially harmful chemical combustion energy output situations."

@mvankerkhove @CIDRAP @WHO Thanks.

Seems most health care locations (in Ontario) ignore the WHO. That's too bad.

This is December 2020 for anyone who wants it.

iris.who.int/bitstream/hand… @mvankerkhove @CIDRAP @WHO Just so people understand the history and how many documents one would have to pore through

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COVID - alone - is the third leading cause of death in Canada in 2022.

It kicked flu pneumonia and all lower respiratory infections out of the way like they were nothing.

And everybody knows nobody's counting COVID cases. So this is a huge undercount.

mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1… It just coughed right in their faces and took their lunch money.

SARS-CoV-2 not foolin'.

Comin for you now hesrt disease nunber 2 with 57000 deaths. And which is an entire category of death not a single reason.

In the gritty cityscape of New York, Lisa, a skilled dermatologist, leads a secret life as a vigilante with a unique skill set – she specializes in treating "immunity debt," a mysterious condition plaguing the underbelly of society.

https://twitter.com/lisa_iannattone/status/1730801033138294846

Lisa's patients aren't just suffering from physical ailments; they're indebted to a shadowy organization that exploits their weakened immune systems for sinister purposes

@drbecs @sameo416 @EvonneTCurran @WHO Titles of articles in a conference compilation I located, from 1980.

Entire conference devoted to aerobiology

mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1… @drbecs @sameo416 @EvonneTCurran @WHO Papers incl "Spread of TB via recirculated air on a naval vessel", "The role of ventilation in the spread of measles in an elementary school", and Langmuir, former CDC director, admitting he got airborne spread wrong but also _herd immunity_

Killing and disabling for no reason

Just posting something I've had in notes for a while. de Souza (Detection and isolation of airborne SARS‐CoV‐2 in a hospital setting ) that found replicating virus in air.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Ocean warming.

The usuals, in denial, probably doom us.

climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/oc… (Or malicious. Didn't mean to imply it's all denial.)

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

Law firm Owens Wright LLP found liable for fraud.

[41] The circumstances of the two consent judgments challenged by the Applicants are replete with the badges of a fraudulent preference. These indicia of fraud have not been overcome or countered by Owens Wright. [42] I conclude, therefore, that the agreements leading to the two consent judgments in issue were therefore entered into contrary to section 3 of the Assignments and Preferences Act. As a consequence, the consent judgments of August 9, 2021 and November 17, 2021 are null

These disinformation accounts are all subscribed to each other probably to pump numbers. Elon the "genius" sure follows a lot of, uh, trash 🤣

"Catching it is inevitable" the mantra from the mouths of babes who don't understand network effects.

Mitigations can have outsized effects. Not everyone is connected to everyone else. Few spread. May explain founder effect & why takes time to migrate from initial population (eg monkeypox, HIV, etc.)

SARS-CoV-2 RNA and virus in the air. 🧵

Shall we do some time travelling and see what we find?

Let's go! SARS-CoV-2 RNA in hospital air in Simgapore.

May 2020.

Chia, Po Ying, Kristen Kelli Coleman, et al. ‘Detection of Air and Surface Contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in Hospital Rooms of Infected Patients’. Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (29 May 2020): 2800. doi.org/10.1038/s41467….

Lawyers, do formal orders _need_ to have a costs term?

I have seen formal orders where the costs are dealt with in a subsequent order and yet somebody is telling me otherwise.

Does anybody have a case on point? I hate to spend any time on this stupidity. I mean a substantive costs term.

Sometimes costs are dealt with 3 months later.

People aren't waiting 3 months to get the formal order from the trial.

Hand sanitizer people saying unplanned absence is very serious cause for concern, and 86% of private sector employers in large companies were self-insured.

They should want to clean the air then :) 🤣🤣

Hand washing 🤡

https://twitter.com/DavidFoxon2/status/1658812186431565824

Show me the evidence.

The hand wash studies I've seen are embarrassing.

This is insane, people.

If we caught flu every 47 days we'd say "this is nuts".

So, "this is nuts". There.

https://twitter.com/ejustin46/status/1654144459120967684

We identified 188 (0.7%) cases of reinfection out of 27,972 patient samples that tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant during November 28, 2021–July 22, 2022. Of those 188 patients, 181 were first infected with the Omicron BA.1 subvariant and were reinfected as

Important:

See, you still can't get published on airborne transmission of viruses.

This is why the entire corpus of written material ends up biased and skewing analysis

Important:

This is why meta analyses are skewed to begin with

https://twitter.com/Protect_BC/status/1653659695423590400

Human beings are very biased.

We introduce bias everywhere.

The effect of repeated interactions like: choosing to do an experiment, getting funded to do an experiment, getting results in an experiment, getting published about your experiment, is a biased collection of "science"

High levels in saliva yet one transmission mode conspicuously absent ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Now, most researchers agree that HIV majorly infects CD4+ T-cells and leads to progressive loss of the cells from circulation and from the total body stores."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… SARS-CoV-2 Actively Infects And Kills Lymphoid Cells

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