Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2
I can&#x27;t really take anything seriously anymore:<p>&gt;  Aerosols can accumulate, remain infectious in indoor air for hours<p>I remember Michael Osterholm said CoV2 wasn&#x27;t airborne, but respiratory, and he made the distinction airborne viruses stay in the air for hours (like Measles). &quot;Aerosols&quot; would indicate they mean respiratory but then they talk about it sticking around for hours.<p>&gt; silent shedders<p>We are told there are asymptomatic people who spread the illness, but there is also tons of research to show they may not (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;32405162&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;32405162&#x2F;</a>) or that some of them weren&#x27;t even asymptomatic; they had symptoms but no one asked (can&#x27;t find that link).<p>This whole pieces seems like a long article to say &quot;wear a mask,&quot; but all of us see people who wear a mask incorrectly or wear a cloth mask that isn&#x27;t very effective against viral matter (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acpjournals.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.7326&#x2F;M20-1342" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acpjournals.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.7326&#x2F;M20-1342</a>) and most people don&#x27;t wash them daily, so they can build up moisture and bacteria (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publichealth.uic.edu&#x2F;news-stories&#x2F;commentary-masks-for-all-for-covid-19-not-based-on-sound-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publichealth.uic.edu&#x2F;news-stories&#x2F;commentary-masks-f...</a>). A lot of people treat them like a fashion accessory or just a thing they have to do and hang them up when they get home.<p>When states mandate masks, you&#x27;re no longer asking people, and you brake the social contract. A lot of people do it just so they aren&#x27;t shamed. A lot of people who don&#x27;t wear masks do it as a political statement. When you boil it down ... it&#x27;s all either political or shame.<p>There is a lot of explicit social conditioning and behavior modification going on here and it&#x27;s sinister. I&#x27;m sick of pre-pubs that get contracted the following week and everyone going into hyper panic mode always. There are tons of secondary effects (people not going in for regular cancer screenings (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unherd.com&#x2F;thepost&#x2F;professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-more-dangerous-than-the-virus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unherd.com&#x2F;thepost&#x2F;professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-mo...</a>), suicide attempts (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;N18t9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;N18t9</a>), heart conditions, etc.) that will catch up with us.<p>I went into more detail earlier this month about getting fed up with our terrible information situation. This is not a time of honor:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battlepenguin.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;this-is-not-a-time-of-honor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battlepenguin.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...</a>