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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by danmaz74 on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:09PM (#36166982)
"Couldn't be real" is a complete misinterpretation of the paper. The "medical establishment" asserts that many diseases are transmitted by aerosol (ie very small droplets), but many more - and especially those similar to covid-19 - are transmitted by larger droplets, which travel less far. This isn't anything trivial as your comment makes it look like.
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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by neoflame on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:57PM (#36167671)
Citation 3 of the linked paper is https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898. I don't see how a tweet by the WHO beginning with "FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne" can be construed as anything but a denial that COVID-19 is airborne.
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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by burnished on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:03PM (#36167777)
They were referencing this

>the medical establishment's position that airborne transmission couldn't be real because it reminded everyone too much of miasma theory

In the post they were responding to

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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by gowld on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:31PM (#36168178)
WHO is a political organization, not medical establishment. Chinese Communist Party has veto power over WHO's statements.
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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by sampo on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:37PM (#36169020)
> especially those similar to covid-19 - are transmitted by larger droplets, which travel less far.

The medical establishment believed that (some may still believe). But it is not true.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149

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