It seems like it changed nothing. No movement towards cleaning the air, no masking in healthcare, no access to respirator fit tests for the general public.
I hope the book makes some mention of the concerted, if not entirely successful, activism by physicists in 2020. They did their best to explain aerosols to medical policy makers, but were dismissed by all too many as interlopers.
Why should they unless the odds of infection at a specific place and time are statistically high? (The American Physical Society cancelled their annual conference entirely in 2020. In 2025, the statistics are rather different, fortunately.)
Not, perhaps, the carefully reasoned, well-supported, and closely argued reply I might have hoped for... unless, of course, your earlier reply was intended as a joke that I didn't get.
How can you POSSIBLY know the risks in a room full of people who have flown in from God knows where? How do you know that the person next to you didn't come to the conference from a home full of sick kids? Or their plane had some super spreader Covid-sick people on it?
"Since the pandemic, airborne transmission has moved to centre stage."
If only! I feel like we've all been intentionally misled for decades. But it didn't take research for me to know that I caught viruses in airplanes. Now I'm wiser too.
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If only! I feel like we've all been intentionally misled for decades. But it didn't take research for me to know that I caught viruses in airplanes. Now I'm wiser too.