It really is so thick... Actually for half a year, for those who can read well with comprehension. How can the RIVM people be so blind? I understand it about the politicians; There are also plenty of intelligent people in my area (including doctors, judges, lawyers, coaches, decision makers, government officials) who know how to blow toots. They assume that they are up to date and well informed: they keep up with current affairs and talk programs and read quality newspapers. That's difficult to talk about.
In dit artikel komt op de eerste pagina een klassieke misvatting aan de orde over de maat van de (micro)druppels. Klassiek werden zwevende microdruppels gedefinieerd als kleiner dan 5 nanometer. Het is later gebleken dat zelfs druppels van groter dan 50 nanometer blijven zweven. Dat heeft verstrekkende gevolgen voor bijvoorbeeld de hoeveelheid virus die getransporteerd kan worden en transmissiegedrag. Het woord "druppels" is onduidelijk gedefinieerd, virologen gebruiken het te pas en te onpas en die ambiguïteit is medeverantwoordelijk voor een van de grootste rampen sinds honderd jaar.
I hope that Jaap van Dissel will never say that by 'droplets' he also meant microdroplets.
The link to the MedScape is further down. At the bottom of the Medscape page there is a 'Next' button. All frequently heard counterarguments against aerosols are dissected there by Prof. Jimenez.
Some examples, point by point:
- Drops vs micro drops. If the particles described by WHO really fell to the ground, pollen allergy would not exist.
- The distance rule that the droplet theory is supposed to prove actually causes dilution of the inhaled aerosols.
- For decades, virologists have refused to accept that measles and tuberculosis went through the air. With exactly the same arguments as they now use to deny aerosol transmission. Tuberculosis was later found to be infected exclusively through the air.
- Virologists say that only viruses with a high infection rate (high R0) are transmitted via aerosols. There is no basis for this. Naturally, the most dangerous diseases are the best researched - always with aerosol transmission as a result.
- Variables such as dilution, emission variations per carrier and per infection phase, viral load, individual immune responses provide a variety of images in Covid-19. That makes it more difficult than, for example, with measles, where almost everyone who comes into contact with it gets sick. It is nonsense to require the measles characteristic before aerosols are accepted.
- Under favorable conditions, reproduction values (R0) of 20 to 25 have been reached in Covid-19 infections. That is unthinkable without airborne contamination.
