Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
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Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#2Anecdotally, as someone who works in a clinic where we test for COVID-19 much of the day (and have multiple positive patient tests per day), I can tell you that this editorial certainly seems correct. Even with our caution with PPE, I’m certain that we would have had a major outbreak among staff over the past year if this thing was transmitting efficiently via fomite—it’s just too difficult to use perfect form 100% of the time when dawning and doffing PPE or to not absentmindedly touch your face, etc.
Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#3Put the kids under a tent (not fully enclosed) with some propane heaters in the parking lot of the school.
Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#4A group of renown epidemiologists from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard demand: "Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal."
Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#5Put the kids under a tent (not fully enclosed) with some propane heaters in the parking lot of the school.
I mean it's a good idea, it's a fire hazard but still.
Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#6A group of renown epidemiologists from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard demand: "Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal." http://gbdeclaration.org/
Lol “renowned epidemiologists” who insisted the total US mortality would remain under 100k deaths. These clowns can be safely ignored.
Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#7A group of renown epidemiologists from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard demand: "Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal." http://gbdeclaration.org/
Lol “renowned epidemiologists” who insisted the total US mortality would remain under 100k deaths. These clowns can be safely ignored.
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Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#8Anecdotally, as someone who works in a clinic where we test for COVID-19 much of the day (and have multiple positive patient tests per day), I can tell you that this editorial certainly seems correct. Even with our caution with PPE, I’m certain that we would have had a major outbreak among staff over the past year if this thing was transmitting efficiently via fomite—it’s just too difficult to use perfect form 100% o…
It seems like people have been saying this from the beginning. But no one can say for certain that there is little or no fomite risk, and hand washing and surface cleaning gives people something to do that helps them feel like they are in control.
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#9I predict we’re going to look back at ourselves in a few years and find a few things particularly egregious, much as we look back at “smoking is good for your health!” ads from the 1950s:
1. Our early guidance that masks don’t help (because we needed to save the real masks for healthcare workers); and
2. Our collective obsession around Mar-Apr 2020 with surface disinfecting. The shortage on Clorox wipes, the obsessive cleaning of hands and packages and groceries. The wiping down of airplane seats. Hand sanitizer everywhere.
In the end we’re going to realize it was all about close proximity airborne transmission.
Re: Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
#10A group of renown epidemiologists from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard demand: "Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal." http://gbdeclaration.org/
Lol “renowned epidemiologists” who insisted the total US mortality would remain under 100k deaths. These clowns can be safely ignored.
None of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration said anything of the sort.
This kind of çomment is unhelpful and uncharitable. It's an ad hominem attack.