Not really a scientific battle, but a political battle. It's gonna be the top news for almost 4 weeks.
A public health titan wrote a private letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield asking him to expose interference in the COVID-19 response and leave his post.
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smallpox is not Covid. It's a huge mistake in judgment to think they need the same kind of eradication effort. The only thing that could possibly have tipped this "Icon" of epidemiology off his rocker is political motivation here.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
This guy would lock us all in the basement.
The eradication of smallpox required a massive program mostly volunteer to detect quickly and go directly to every outbreak and stamp it out. It required a vaccine, and isolation of cases, and disinfection/sanitization of the area. People going door to door across the country looking for cases that might be "hidden". There were no "mild" cases, it was deadly in the extreme.
Covid is more efficiently dealt with by public health precautions, and we haven't even used the most effective of these....... masks have not actually been studied in the Covid context. Do they gather virus and hold it until we handle our masks? Do they really reduce cases. Wear a mask, but not handle it a lot. Take it off and dispose of it, clean it with soap and bleach, or dispose of it. And it's really nuts to do mask mandates which never can equate with common sense. Wear the mask when you need it. Don't wear it longer than necessary. The damn thing hold virus and protects it, and an hour later the virus might break loose and come on in. Now the experts are wailing about how twenty feet is not enough social distance because some droplets can drift that far, especially in a breeze. It has always been a statistical calculation, not a certainty without exception.
Keep your distance when you can. Wear a mask when you are near people. Breath the sun-cleansed air as much as you can without the damn mask.
Get an electrostatic filter/uv light/ozone generator installed in you home/office/store/church. fumigate your house with some laundry-like chlorine fumes once in a while. These things kill viruses. If you carpool or run an uber, get a little air sanitizer with some anti-viral treatment.
We are fairly well down the road from the "flatten the curve" necessity. We need to focus on the vulnerable. We will, 95%, be fine just doing common sense with this. If you have someone close who is vulnerable, you should really do something to protect them. Don't drag old masks into the house and throw them on the coffee table. Take them off and put them in the garbage before you go in. Get a plug in aroma device and pour oh say 5ml of chlorox into it. Wipe everything every day with some good sanitizing solution, say with a little chlorox hardly enough to smell as well. Actually soap is about as good.
Get tested if any symptoms appear, immediately. Get to the doctor sooner.
We will be OK.
