17/ Summary: while all arguments carry some weight, to me (e)-(f)-(g) appear overwhelmingly more important in current situation. If, as I think, calling it “aerosol” get us closer to WHO etc accepting “aerosol transmission plays a substantial role in community”, setting...
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Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez Retweeted Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez
18/ clear guidelines to avoid it, communicating clearly (eg smoke analogy, better videos we all agree with, A CIViC DUTy-type slogans: https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1289695523524374528 …) that would be a huge step forward. Imagine a world in which ID-E-PH and aerosol+ scientists agreed on...
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19/ community guidelines, all support WHO, CDC guidance, stop arguing in press, work together to tackle critical interdisciplinary problems? I believe (perhaps naively) that would be a little closer if we all agree to about “aerosol transmission” & stop saying “it is airborne”
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20/ Thoughts? Comments? Reasons that I missed or didn’t articulate well? Suggestions for way forward? Thanks a lot if you made it to here!
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Replying to @jljcolorado
I find it confusing to try and separate the two because aerosols are airborne. Based on my experience the public really appreciates a clear simple description so they can understand why they are asked to wear masks, avoid crowded rooms, etc. This virus is traveling in the air.
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I’ve actually had good success describing it as short range aeorosols (and what airborne isn’t) - Dr.
@angie_rasmussen explained it well on SciFri. I honestly have found people panic more with “airborne” bc the historical context. Appreciate the thread@jljcolorado!4 replies 9 retweets 39 likes -
Same here. "Airborne" is vague and people associate it with long-range measles-esque transmission. I've found it is more useful to educate people about more specific terminology and put it in the context of the virus in question. People get short-range aerosols when explained.
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I struggled with this a lot and here's the problem I see. Language works descriptively, and not prescriptively. I like and use short-range aerosols whenever I can, but the public will use airborne hence I've decided that it's better that we do as well, but defining it correctly.
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Replying to @zeynep @angie_rasmussen and
So if I had magic-wand to fix terminology, I'd use short-range aerosols and nothing else. But there is no way to stuff airborne back into a bag so imho we should work on its incorrect connotations and fill that space with correct information (misinformation thrives on voids).
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Replying to @zeynep @angie_rasmussen and
In the piece y'all contributed so much to, I kept saying short-range aerosols and explaining but I also didn't want people to think there is short-range aerosols and something *else* called airborne, and that the latter was impossibly scary. Really tough but here we are!
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See here what I keep trying to do, use "short-range aerosols" to move that term, but put airborne there, too, to try to explain that's what we mean, there's no separate airborne as in "it's airborne!" a la Dustin Hoffman. Best I got for the complex issue.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1288829829912113154 …
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Replying to @zeynep @angie_rasmussen and
That’s also how I explain the differences a lot of time ;)
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Replying to @SaskiaPopescu @zeynep and
Boomers would get it if you talked about ‘girl’s hair spray.’ Younger people, maybe cigarette smoke?
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