"At stake is not merely the technical distinction between a loose fitting medical mask and a respirator certified to FFP2 or FFP3 standards in the United Kingdom or N95 standards in the United States.

At stake is whether health systems have been knowingly deploying substandard protective equipment in environments where exposure to lethal airborne disease is foreseeable, continuous and unavoidable.

Under international labour law, this question is already answered."

I wish I could bottle this article and pour it into a water pistol so that I could aim it at doctors and nurses who come near me unmasked or wearing baggy blues.

https://www.businessupturn.com/trade-policy/why-the-who-respirator-revolt-could-reshape-global-health-governance/624/

#Covid19 #CovidIsAirborne #MAskUp #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #DropletDogma #IgnazSemmelweis

There has been confusion around "droplets" and "aerosols"; what do they mean? What's the difference?

It's the difference between spittle and breath.

https://www.tumblr.com/pipzeroes/705932996789829632/spittle-versus-breath

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNOTover #LongCOVID #COVID #SARSCoV2 #DropletDogma #airborne #disease #airbornedisease #mask #masks #maskup #spittle #breath

Washing your hands helps protect against getting sick in general, but "cleaned hands" are NOT the best way of preventing #airborne #disease (no matter what some people may say otherwise).

#COVIDisAirborne #cleanedhands #dropletdogma #XBB15 #kraken #bcpoli #cdnpoli

#COVIDisAirborne, meaning #SARSCoV2 can travel in someone's breath (and it spreads like cigarette smoke, at distances even farther than two metres).

Despite this, the #DropletDogma persists, and people may be advised that the best way to prevent the spread of COVID is to wash their hands. (Not true!)

You can be infected by COVID from someone's breath, not just their spittle (droplets).

Hand hygiene is good for many reasons, but it's not the best way to prevent #COVID.

In this image, someone misidentifies airborne #SARS-CoV-2 as droplets. It is a reference to the #DropletDogma, a belief running counter to the reality that tiny particles of moisture people emit (even when just breathing) can contain infectious diseases.

#COVIDisAirborne because these bits of infected moisture can remain suspended in the air (able to float distances greater than two metres).

Unfortunately, unlike the cartoon viruses in this image, these tiny particles are basically invisible.