https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/01/12/trrg-j12.html
"“We appeal to the medical community and to the relevant national and
international bodies to recognize the potential for airborne spread of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is significant potential for
inhalation exposure to viruses in microscopic respiratory droplets
(microdroplets) at short to medium distances (up to several meters, or room
scale), and we are advocating for the use of preventive measures to mitigate
this route of airborne transmission.”
— Letter to the World Health Organization by 239 scientists, July 6, 2020
Among the greatest failures, indeed crimes, of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been
the coverup and distortion of the science of airborne transmission, the way in
which SARS-CoV-2 spreads from person to person. As the fourth year of the
pandemic begins, the vast majority of the world’s population has virtually no
understanding of this science and what measures must be taken to prevent viral
transmission.
Implicated in this coverup are the World Health Organization (WHO), the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health
agencies and governments throughout the world.
The principled stand taken by scientists like Drs. Jose-Luis Jimenez, Lidia
Morawska, Donald Milton, Linsey Marr and their colleagues early in the pandemic
to place front and center the issue of airborne transmission went unheeded by
the world’s top public health officials, as well as governments and
corporations.
Instead, all of these institutions and their leaders have prioritized corporate
profits over the health of society, rejecting the necessary public health
measures and renovations to infrastructure that could dramatically slow and
ultimately stop viral transmission globally.
While lip service on the role of airborne transmission has recently been given
by figures such as White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, no
effort has been made to use the vast resources at their disposal to educate the
public on this science. Concretely, nothing has been done to actually improve
indoor air quality in the vast majority of public spaces.
Clearly acknowledging and educating society on the science of airborne
transmission of not only COVID-19, but all respiratory pathogens, would require
governments and businesses to clean the air in indoor spaces in order to
protect the public."
Via Cass M, who wrote "There’ve been sick building issues before the pandemic
and we have solutions. But the majority of people prefer to ignore what they
can do."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
