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yarnings · 2 years ago

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We are three years into this pandemic. How has this not spurred the medical community into fixing their definition of “aerosol”. I know that it’ll take a long time, but I still haven’t heard any whispers of the process of the process STARTING.

This isn’t just “it really confuses people the way you use the term”. I’m certain that there were people who missed very relevant research papers because they saw the term “aerosol” and went “no, this is an airborne disease”.

#under normal circumstances I'm sure #that someone will say #hey did you remember to look for papers about aerosols too #because airborne disease often spreads that way #but things had to happen so quickly #and so many people who didn't have the experience #were looking into safety precautions #that if public health said #oh turns out that best practices now are for airborne #not aerosol #any information about actual aerosols would have gotten rejected #along with the information about medical aerosols #I'm fully convinced that we'll never find out #if COVID-19 is actually airborne #or just transmits via finer aerosols #because the question just wouldn't make sense #to a lot of medical researchers #is it airborne or airborne?#why would I look into that?

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