OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/
For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs.
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
We can't let Roger Cook, Murray Watt, and their fossil fuel industry corporate sponsors destroy the Kimberley www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh9I... - @thejuicemedia.com
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Today's #Ebola update from DRC.
Watching Senator Jordon Steele-John intermittently raging at and patiently schooling a row of NDIA and Health bureaucrats and TEARING them a new one is perhaps the best thing I have ever watched.
MASTERFUL.
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-geo...
The WA government made a tourism ad for the Kimberley, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
👉 Write to Environment Minister Murray Watt 🥧 www.environskimberley.org.au/minister_watt
A thread on why the WHO's resurrection of a need for close contact as a condition for infections to transmit is a relapse into a Medieval model of contagionism long discredited by Koch.
“Avoiding COVID… but also missing people?
Help map cleaner-air spaces, COVID-conscious meetups, and safer community spots so people can reconnect without giving up their health."
Click on this link to find out more: airspothealth.com/a/blog/help-...
There was an ancient debate over the origin of epidemics between miasmatists (non-contagious bad air arising in the environment) vs contagionists (infectious spread person-to-person). The scientific debate is over, but the political grounds driving the polarisation remain alive today. 🧵
It’s odd why medicine doesn’t get the engineering principles behind respiratory protective equipment. “But there’s no RCT to prove the predictions made by aerosol physics have clinical impact”.
