Imagine if we had started with precautions against aerosols—opened windows, went outside, avoided crowded indoors rather than six-feet rules, ventilated and filtered air, wore masks and paid attention to fit and filter (droplet interpretation is why they didn't recommend masks)..
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At least hide behind "the science has changed", you know? (Even though, after some understandable confusion at first, the evidence became pretty clear by Spring of 2020.) They double down, eighteen months into a pandemic? The amount of global harm caused by these fragile egos...
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Wrote about ventilation and aerosol transmission for The Atlantic and The New York Times, including early on in the pandemic to put it on the mitigation agenda when it wasn’t, and co-author on a Lancet paper on it with 20th highest altmetric score out of ~17 million papers. Ok?https://twitter.com/DrProcrast/status/1424855730650292228 …
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The weird part if this is the way to make credentials count is to make them work for is when we need them. I wish we were like other countries whose scientists recognized and recommended ventilation and masks—airborne mitigations—early on. Basics shouldn’t have been a fight.
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I’m constantly walking by “outdoor” sections of restaurants in NYC so tightly-sealed that they’re.. air-conditioned.
18 months into a pandemic! In the worst hit city in the United States!
During a new surge. Meanwhile no returns because Covid! 
This isn’t how it should be.pic.twitter.com/XDfLVDfIvn
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Where is the PERSISTENCE of this droplet idea coming from?
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What is medical inertia if not droplets persisting?
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I thought they figured out that droplets were a lot smaller and stayed in the air longer then they thought? It's not like the virus spreads by like airborne spores or something.
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The droplets being smaller is basically aerosol and aerosol spread is airborne.
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