I got a notification that someone on Twitter liked a statement by a rival in a troll-flame war. So I reviewed my tweets from mid-July, 2020.
As I write this, in mid-September, 2020, I feel like saying “told you so.”
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Category: SARS-CoV-2
This first paper is exciting, because it’s about people working on a fishing boat, and being exposed to COVID-19.
No, they were not forced onto a boat and exposed to it.
They are just testing people going onto these boats, and when they all test negative, they embark. If an unfortunate person was incubating the virus, and still testing negative, they spread it, later.
Sometime around July 8 to 11, this article made the rounds. It is an article that just won’t vanish, and as it’s passed around, the claims about it get more extreme.
They completely misread the paper, which does not compare cloth masks to “no masks”. They compare medical masks and cloth masks to standard practice, where people wore masks.
I try to delete posts regularly, and archive some in posts to my own blogs. I know this is destroying the archival aspects of replies, and I guess that sucks, but… I feel like it must be done.
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
These are posts from March 2020. I remove posts from Facebook periodically. To preserve the old posts, I copy some of them to this blog.
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
Three recent articles about reducing the risks of airborne transmission of COVID-19.
The Risks, Know Them, Avoid Them by Erin Bromage
Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for prevention of COVID-19 by MacIntyre and Wang
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks by Leung et. al.
An analysis of three Covid-19 outbreaks: how they happened and how they can be avoided
HVAC
Filtration/Disinfection as ASHRAE
Background on Air from Environmental Infection Control Guildelines by CDC
The Unintended Consequences of High-MERV Filters
Discussing the CDC and ASHRAE Recommendations for HVAC Systems
Please read p.134, “COVID-19 HITS NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES THE HARDEST“
This paper isolates a population comprising several ethnic groups, called Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI), in the US, that are urban, working class, low income, and have many comorbidities, like diabetes, obesity, HBP, asthma, and cancer that make COVID-19 worse. They are suffering the highest levels of disease and fatality.
I’m not a doctor or scientist, nor am I a right-winger conspiracy person or any of that noise. I’m just putting this out there to help people search for some info.