They should just subpoena Angie's emails. She's going to be a weak link for sure. #LabLeak
I could care less whether this is a leak or not, but i remind everyone that lab leaks are very common because they believe in "droplet" transmission.
Their control animals catch Ebola because they don't appreciate it's in the air.
People have caught HIV without a needle prick too.
Uncommon infection doesn't mean it's not in the air just means it doesn't often successfully infect.
This isn't rocket science, that's the shocking part.
I wonder how many diseases we consider touch are actually airborne and are just not really that good at infecting us, so they do it infrequently. Just look to whether the pathogen can infect lungs, and perhaps whether causes viremia (because then it is in the saliva). Smallpox doesn't infect substantially out of the scabs. It's already in your saliva before those show.
Sorry for that mental picture.
This article by @jljcolorado is one of my favorites of the COVID-era.
Just noted my oversight and who I'm talking to there. Geez!
@BE just teasing!
@BE it's actually a very fascinating story about us waffling between miasma and contagionism for centuries. Then germ theory explained the germs were in us which unifies, but Chapin said "droplet" and we reimported this idea of 2m being protective when it is not. We akso developed vaccines in the 40s and I think we forgot about the air debate
Sometimes in science you have to rediscover something you already knew, often under a different set of circumstances, in order to move forward again.
@BE @jljcolorado
Never heard of it ;)