Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne
I was the first in our office to go permanently WFH in February of 2020, three weeks before our offices closed, because I recognized that SARS-Cov-2 would be a huge problem, when pretty much everyone was in the &#x27;just a flu&#x2F;cold&#x27; mode. Here&#x27;s the news that did not pass my bullshit detector:<p>1. Virus is not airborne (as initially claimed). I thought the water droplets claims were true for a while until I saw how fast it spread. It didn&#x27;t make sense to me that a virus that is dragged onto the ground by water droplets would spread with such speed.<p>2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won&#x27;t help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn&#x27;t want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them.<p>The only bullshit I wasn&#x27;t able to capitalize on was SPX crashing. I calculated that it should have fallen to less than $1000&#x2F;share (closer to $500), based on past panic sell patterns, which was obviously not a guarantee, but the government stepped in and I missed out on quite a bit of money. I still think bailing out rich people&#x27;s money in the stock market was complete bullshit on behalf of the government (but what do I know?).<p>I know it&#x27;s all in retrospect now, so it seems like I&#x27;m tooting my own horn here, but at the time, it wasn&#x27;t easy to be the guy who said &quot;see ya guys, I&#x27;m going to hide from a virus that&#x27;s going to turn into a global pandemic and you should all be doing the same because it&#x27;s the logical thing to do based on the known facts&quot;. Even my manager (who approved my request to WFH) looked at me like I&#x27;m the token crazy guy from sci-fi movies holding &quot;the end is nigh&quot; sign.<p>I wish more people thought critically and had healthy skepticism towards all the information they receive, not just the part they disagree with. I was never a fan of blindly trusting anything. I trust, but I verify.