CDC says coronavirus spreads mainly ~ through ~ aerosols and droplets

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    557 Well-Known Member

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    Sorry, I really can’t tell where politics ends and media starts. I lumped it all together. :) You are correct however as it’s the media spreading the dis/mis information.
     
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    It is very convenient to the Democrat cause that we discover that our safe space of 6 feet isn't safe after all. I mean science just seems to fit the don't vote in person argument like a glove.....now. People are walking all over town outside with no masks on and even in some businesses they are being ignored. Maybe we will see 200 million deaths like Biden says. The 'science' seems to support him. The only thing that is going to control this virus is November or December or January or however long it takes for Democrats to accept another 4 years of Trump.
     
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    I understand what a novel coronavirus is vs the seasonal flu, however I do challenge you about flu deaths were only individuals who did not get a flu shot? That is not the case here in "death's waiting room". Our seasonal flu deaths are those with comorbidities and the elderly, regardless of vaccine or not.

    I understand why you may wish to embellish a bit, but you are not citing correct facts.
     
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    Over 200,000 dead on Trump's watch that could have been prevented.
     
  5. CenterField

    CenterField Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Seems like you're another one who thinks that the INTERNATIONAL medico-scientific community cares even a little bit about Donald Trump and Joe Biden and our domestic politics. The push to acknowledge aerosol transmission came from the international scientific community. The CDC tried to catch up but then was thwarted by the Trump administration.
     
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    No, you DON'T seem to understand it because YOU kept comparing the epidemiological control measures to those of the flu.
    I didn't say all deaths, I said almost all deaths, and yes, only 43% of adults in the US accept the annual flu shot, and the vast majority of those who die are the ones who didn't get the shot. Sure, they are the elderly or the very young or the very sick, but even those can be protected with the flu shot. Our very low acceptance of flu shots is what derails these people.
     
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    There is nothing new about this revelation. We have known the virus spread by air from the beginning, thus the masks.
     
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    Fauci is no more in control of what the NIH does and says than Redfield at the CDC is .

    Trump stooges have taken over
     
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    Note. Even when talking about aerosols, they are talking about aerosols that travel in the air and come FROM the human body... attaching themselves to DROPLETS, that masking CAN catch
     
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    I read many of your posts and looked at the links you've posted. I'm still unclear on why this would be advantageous during an election year?

    The POTUS clearly wants to distance himself from the virus and its impact on his
    (1) re-election,
    (2) the economy, and
    (3) society.

    What does he or anyone else have to gain by unleashing it this year?

    Is it some kind of trial run for something bigger?

    What's the end game?
     
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    This is very old news.
    If any of you would read international and foreign news, this was talked about and published months ago, by European Health Departments, all over Europe.
    Why masks, why distancing, why no large crowds and so, because it gets transmitted by aerosols which are in the air and absorbed through eyes, nose and mouth.
    Wow, how impressed I am by the CDC announcement, they are on top of the virus, 5 month behind.
     
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    Maybe I'm another one who sees BS for what it is regardless of it's source. This has become so political it's hard to figure out what to believe or who to trust. Mostly nothing and nobody at this point.
     
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    If only Hillary had been given her rightful place in history. Mean old Trump!
     
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    Quiet simple, start reading international news outlets and what they report.
    Doing so you would have been informed that the virus is spread by aerosols.
    Trump knew that in late January.
    So what is the big news.
     
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    So why didn’t it bother you two weeks ago when Fauci presented a double standard on aerosols but the CDC doing so now does? I’m not saying either is right or wrong, just trying to understand why the same information from two different sources elicits polar opposite responses in the consumer of the information.
     
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    Those 200,000 happened on his watch, because he screwed up bigly
     
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    Didn't bother me?

    I have no idea what you are talking about
     
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    You missed my posts two weeks ago and my posts in this thread on the subject? Or did I miss your posts criticizing Fauci two weeks ago?
     
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    I haven't said it was big news, just used as a new propaganda tool at an opportune time.
     
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    No he didn't. Several Democrat Governors did though. It was fought everywhere at the State/Local level based on sound national guidelines with varying degrees of success and failure.
     
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    So then you do understand that as new information becomes available, it may change previous thoughts and statements. Good.

    I know how many want to keep their jobs, look at all the information that did come out, only to have trump dismiss it and even try to get the message changed. And often got the message changed.

    Although, Fauci has been doing his job for 40+ yrs under many different admins, Dem and Repub. So, either he's the best ass kisser in the world, or does a really fine job.
    He doesn't come off as an ass kisser to me.
     
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    Newsflash: not everything is BS. Peer-reviewed scientific papers generally aren't.
     
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    By air and by aerosol are two vastly different things (the latter is a scarier subtype of the former). But yes, the aerosol route has been suspected for a while, already, but our CDC and the WHO hadn't caught up to it which is why the international scientific community has demanded a position.
     
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    Yes, exactly. And then.... drum roll... they retract it.
     
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    The timing is just coincidental I reckon.
     

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