Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2
&gt; The who therefore played down the risks of aerosols, issuing guidance via its Twitter and Facebook pages at the end of March 2020 that the general public need not worry. “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne,” it said, adding that any claims to the contrary were “misinformation”.<p>Not quite the money quote, but on reading this I wanted to point out one little thing.<p>This is also a form of authoritarianism, not the splashy kind that has you making land wars in Asia or creating command economies and seizing private property; but the bureaucratic &quot;we know better than you because we said so&quot; kind. When authority is invested in you, as it has been invested in the WHO, and you abuse that authority to tell independent investigators not on your payroll that they are just flat out wrong and the lines of inquiry they are investigating are dead ends and they should just shut up already, well, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t have the authority you were vested with.<p>Fortunately, we also live in a world where the UN and its agencies do not have a monopoly on good information.