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Re:Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to... by mrob on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:41AM (#45889423)
Six feet of separation is a reasonable defense against the larger droplets produced by talking or singing. If you're somewhere with good ventilation then these are the biggest threat.

The more obvious stupidity was around face masks, first by denying they worked at all, and then by acting like coarse weave cloth was as good as N95 or FFP3.

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Re:Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to... by mc32 on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:45AM (#45889475)
Agree with all you say but would add that those large droplets from sneezing etc are not the greatest vehicle for the virus so it’s like fighting a house fire with Solo cups of water.
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Re:Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to... by whatevertrevor on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:35PM (#45890310)
Right, but if memory serves me correctly droplet based transmission was the prevailing theory for the first few months while the WHO was oscillating like a pendulum on its masking recommendations.
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Re:Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to... by chasd00 on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @01:13PM (#45890800)
> droplet based transmission was the prevailing theory for the first few months

iirc that was the prevailing theory until after the vaccines came out. I don't recall it ever being in the news when it was determined to be airborne. By that time, COVID wasn't even newsworthy.

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Re:Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to... by whatevertrevor on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:08PM (#45892152)
Definitely, I don't think official channels recognized aerosolized transmission until way too late, and even when they did it was very low key and non-committal.

I'm on team "ball was dropped badly re pandemic policy and communication", though I personally don't extend that to blind distrust in institutions in general. It was a tough (arguably unprecedented) situation in a media landscape primed for misinformation.

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