The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom

Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by GeekyBear on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:36PM (#36168245)

>In March, W.H.O. denied outright that Covid-19 was airborne, posting on social media, “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne,” and calling it “misinformation.” We and our colleagues, scientists and engineers who have studied airborne particles for our entire careers, met with W.H.O. in April 2020 to express our concern that airborne transmission was important in the spread of COVID-19. W.H.O. vehemently rejected our suggestion and painted us as trespassers who did not understand what was happening in hospitals.

https://time.com/6162065/covid-19-airborne-transmission-conf...

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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by loeg on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:40PM (#36168310)

I think you and others in this thread are reading that tweet significantly out of context.

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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by vxNsr on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:01PM (#36168600)

You don’t need to think too much, just go read the tweet. It’s pretty unequivocal. At that point the WHO was very adamantly against the idea that Covid could be airborne. That tweet thread is very strongly worded to emphasize that point.

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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by pessimizer on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:11PM (#36168748)

I think you should make that case, rather than implying that a case could be made.

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Re:The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom by actuallyalys on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:44PM (#36169102)

Here's a fuller quotation of the WHO tweet:

>FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.

>The #coronavirus is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks.

The WHO was unequivocally stating that Covid was not airborne, apparently meaning that they (wrongly) thought it was not spread through aerosols. Instead, they were saying it was spread through droplets. So they were wrong about how it spreads, but did not go as far as saying it wasn't spread through respiratory routes/air at all, which I think might be some people's interpretation of "The WHO said it was not airborne."

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