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    1. alex rubinsteyn‏ @iskander 14 Mar 2021

      alex rubinsteyn Retweeted Maarten De Cock

      History of science Q: it seems like ventilation / air quality eventually became a somewhat taboo topic in public health. When did this happen and why?https://twitter.com/mdc_martinus/status/1371128425763762187 …

      alex rubinsteyn added,

      Maarten De Cock @mdc_martinus
      One of the many indoor air data from ‘The Carbonic Acid, Organic Matter, and Micro-organisms in Air of Dwellings and Schools.’ (1886) I wonder what these 19th century scientists would say if they heard that ventilation is not investigated during a 21st century airborne pandemic. pic.twitter.com/SF3R08d6TR
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Mar 2021
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      Fascinating history. Someone will write an excellent book, eventually but goes back to germ theory vs. miasma wars overcorrection/dogma from what I can tell—plus there are blatant errors of physics in current official docs waiting for pandemic to settle, I guess, for correction.

      6:36 PM - 14 Mar 2021
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      • #COVIDisAirborne John Wenger Lara 😷 #𝙲𝙾𝚅𝙸𝙳𝚒𝚜𝙰𝚒𝚛𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎 greg Julie Anderton Max Hawkins Seanie Byrne Ceacilius Est In Horto Democracy Together
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        1. In a democracy it's ok to ask for better.‏ @HalfaxNew 14 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @iskander

          Not a scientist here but maybe some gaslighting denying that stinky stale air can't be healthy. (Sorry for all the negatives).

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        1. alex rubinsteyn‏ @iskander 14 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          I have the same hunch but the timeline is a little off. Hadn't germ theory mostly won by the late 1800s? And they certainly seemed to have better intuition wrt ventilation in 1918 compared with modern public health. So what else caused that knowledge to get lost?

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        2. More Housing Choices; NH=neighborhood‏ @bnjd18 14 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @iskander

          Other interesting questions about the 1800s: what was the arc of the acceptence of germ theory? How quickly did scientists come to accept it? How quickly did the general population come to accept it?

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        3. alex rubinsteyn‏ @iskander 14 Mar 2021
          Replying to @bnjd18 @zeynep

          I guess it's something that may be hard to tell from just the scientific record, might also need to look at health messaging in newspapers and from authorities. Hope a historian of public health sees this thread.

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        1. Quality N95/P100 masks for everyone‏ @N95For 14 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @iskander

          Dr. C. Chapin: basis for 'follow the anecdotal science' https://archive.org/details/sourcesmodesofin00chap/page/312/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater …, you can read the whole chapter, but the conclusion has been carried on for 100 years. epidemiologist should acknowledge they have learned a lot from aerosol scientists. Rebuild trust in science

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