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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne
2020-07-12
"Three in one!"
"No, one in three!"
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Ebola revealed that Medicine had made unproved assumptions for just as long about how far a cough spread. All in all, these terrifying pandemics are terribly useful from a scientific standpoint. One does wonder what unfounded assumption the next one will reveal.
Posted by:Fred

#6  China is crossing a virus with a hummingbird as we speak.
Posted by: Grunter   2020-07-12 17:58  

#5  It's simple, if it is the globalists' best interest for the germs to be airborne, then they are airborne.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-07-12 15:27  

#4  ^Touche!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-12 08:49  

#3  How many certainly would be more efficient, my dear, but century-old assumptions are not willingly reexamined. I don’t recall any being reexamined before Ebola exploded on the scene — do you?
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-07-12 08:39  

#2  Measles is airborne, and has an R-naught of 12-18. The R-naught for COVID is 3.28 (in Australia). Wikipedia

There seems to be a disconnect. Maybe the science ain't settled.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-07-12 08:35  

#1  One does wonder what unfounded assumption the next one will reveal.

Not how many, TW?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-12 06:44  

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