It's a lab leak though isn't it?
It messes us up. It is a threat to the health and wellbeing of people. It’s surprisingly easy to stop transmission, and surprisingly difficult to work with after infection. There’s a lot of clear scientific knowledge on actions we can take. The academic papers on this mostly lay unread. There is a waiting time from clear scientific results in molecular biology to medical and engineering applications, and this waiting time is far, far too long. Not as in “move fast and break things”, but rather “doctors should read”.
I am afraid this is not true. It is not easy to stop transmission. I dont have on my phone links to studies but I remember that all mechanism we have except quarantine are working within a probability range.
With all measures that we took for this virus it is now probably in all communities around the glob.
It’s essentially this:
People breathe it out. Don’t breathe it in. We have filtration materials that strip it out of the air.
It has been easy to avoid infection. I have found it easy. Mechanically speaking.
Socially, it has been difficult. Because of severe failures of judgement made by people in positions of responsibility in public health organizations. Because of obviously incorrect guidance.
I am aware that this is an extraordinarily tall claim. I ask to be forgiven, ask for your consideration, promise that I am in good faith and under a moral obligation to point to this. Here’s one reference for it out of many available:
What Were the Historical Reasons for the Resistance to Recognizing Airborne Transmission during the COVID-19 Pandemic?, submitted 2021, published 2022 – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3904176
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edit: There are also recent studies which show that immunization does confer blocking protection, if the inhaled dose is lowered. Apologies; Am out of time, there’s a child to attend to.
If it was a lableak, then there's documents and data that would have been extremely helpful, and which still matter.
There's also the other benefits of knowing: public health preparedness, scientific research policies, global biosecurity, international relations and trust, legal and ethical accountability, zoonotic spillover research, public clarity, etc.
It completely baffles me that people are still dismissing the lableak theory as unimportant.