The bad faith reporting during and since the pandemic is very much an attack on the public. It's like everyone forgot "best efforts" protocol is both automatic and standard in healthcare to make interim guidelines. "No science" is wrong, distancing to reduce respiratory outbreaks is known to work. - ThreadSky

dylanlineger.bsky.social • 15 days ago

The bad faith reporting during and since the pandemic is very much an attack on the public. It's like everyone forgot "best efforts" protocol is both automatic and standard in healthcare to make interim guidelines. "No science" is wrong, distancing to reduce respiratory outbreaks is known to work.

Reposted from Michael Hobbes

This feels like an absurdly bad-faith attack to me. It's true that there were no studies on *6 feet specifically*, but there is a mountain of evidence showing that social distance reduces COVID transmission.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

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creativemercury.bsky.social•15 days ago

It’s as if they are deliberately being disingenuous

dylanlineger.bsky.social•15 days ago

In Ontario where the SARS Commission (2004) took a deep dive into pandemic management and communication we knew what to do. Conservatives let their politics turn to Clownvoys and outright disdain for human life. We seem "better on COVID" cause we're beside USA which was so much worse. We did okay.

dylanlineger.bsky.social•15 days ago

If the public picked one month each year as "mask month" it would save millions of lives a year. It would reduce the spread of not just COVID variants but all respiratory illnesses.

originalaurelia.bsky.social•15 days ago

If we made all vaccines free to people of all ages, and made getting vaccinated supercool and sexy (think Elvis) and put in high air quality standards for all schools and daycares….we’d save millions of lives from all diseases and billions of dollars.
#covid19

dylanlineger.bsky.social•15 days ago

Indeed. The SARS Commission recommended building code changes for air quality (especially for schools & hospital at minimum). The current push to build right now seems to cast the ideas aside. 2 pandemics in 20 years for Ontario and 0 lessons learned.

originalaurelia.bsky.social•15 days ago

They did deal with hospital air quality way back then; though infection control MDs didn’t listen but sort of listened, then ignored engineers and plumbers and HVAC folk.

Most govt buildings, and private buildings were upgraded—workplace safety forced it.

Only schools were left behind

originalaurelia.bsky.social•15 days ago

Basically…my theory is that teachers Unions never pushed the workplace safety part of air quality.
Loads of schools were rebuilt, upgraded, made much safer over the past 25 years—and it was assumed that air quality was perfect in new schools…but more like hit or miss
And lots were not rebuilt

originalaurelia.bsky.social•15 days ago

Improving air quality and cleanliness in schools and daycares alone would save so much money it would pay for itself.

Kids pass on diseases all the time asymptomatically to adults who get deathly ill. And vice versa.

wormodyssey.bsky.social•15 days ago

They don't shit on Jeff bezos enough for buying wapo. Like people should be bullying him into selling it or letting it go independent again.

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