Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?

This reminds me of my post 9 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24039598

“I am still shocked: months after research has shown that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne stable in aerosol form for over 3 hours, we still aren’t telling the public that room air purifiers are a ‘good thing’ (for making indoor air like outdoor air - in regards to virion density per cubic air volume)

The filter technology is essentially the same as in the N95, orders of magnitude more effective than cloth masks.

Put these indoors, multiple per classroom/working space to help the air refresh in sub 5 minute intervals.”

I’m getting more used to this as I age…

It is truly disappointing that even after the diamond princess example in February 2020 that easy airborne transmission wasn’t accepted.

I can’t fathom why after all this time n95 masks were mandatory for health care workers but it was simply accepted that the general population couldn’t have them. If everyone had an n95 mask for a month would it have been pandemic over?

I await the study indicating cloth masks are ineffective against covid size particles. We don’t see people doing asbestos abatement wrapping a t-shirt around their face and saying that should do it!