The state of science at the AD dated 22 July
AD reports on a new investigation. However, we have known what this research 'shows' about aerosols for four (!) months now – and we already know much more. Since March, the studies have been piling up. Maurice de Hond, whose name is studiously avoided in this article, has been trying to put that advancing insight on the agenda for months.
There are no research reports that show the opposite. RIVM has not been able to provide any substantiation for various socially disruptive, law-violating and desocializing measures.
Professor Lohse of the University of Twente claims in the interview that RIVM has indeed published that aerosols are important. A source is missing, it also doesn't seem true when we look at the website:
It is currently not clear whether the small droplets (aerosols) that remain in the air play a role in the spread of the new coronavirus. If they play a role in the spread, this is a less important route of spread than the larger droplets. […] It seems that the virus can be in the fine small droplets, but that the amount of virus in them is usually not enough to infect someone.
https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-covid-19/verspreiding
For example, face masks are indeed false security
In addition, the headline of the article is incorrect because face masks hardly help in a virus-rich indoor climate. We have known that for months, but according to the AD, it still needs to be investigated. It will be a matter of time until a celebrating group of face mask wearers is felled by COVID-19. This happens automatically when the weather gets colder and the doors and windows remain closed. Because the ventilation standards are insufficient and the virus really doesn't keep you trapped behind your face mask. Hold a cloth in front of your mouth and breathe closely on a mirror. You can tell from the damp spot that is then created whether you are producing aerosols.
Solution
A certified virus-proof ventilation system for public spaces must become part of the permit system or the Building Decree. But yes, recess. Apparently it doesn't have such an urgency and people don't understand it anyway, as long as the media keep putting Maurice in the corner.
Just shout 'vaccine', people understand that. To deviate from that now after heavy investments have already been made in it, that's about it. But a vaccine only works on one specific virus for a (six?) year. A ventilation plan would flatten all flu waves forever. And immediately demonstrate that the RIVM policy of the last decades has cost many years of life.
Why research?
Why prominent professor and physicist Detlef Lohse is now researching something that has long been convincingly proven and confirmed from various sides, is not explained. Otherwise, it might not be 'news'?
It's a Premium AD article so you might not be able to read it. What you can do better anyway is to look for yourself in this selection from previous scientific studies:
If that is too difficult, read some blogs at https://maurice.nl – it does nothing more than make this matter accessible and support it with its own data analyses. For example, this one: https://www.maurice.nl/2020/07/11/over-grote-en-kleine-druppels/
