1. La Transmisión Aérea de Virus: Una Realidad Ignorada.
A pesar de la evidencia científica temprana y abrumadora, la naturaleza de la transmisión aérea de COVID-19 fue negada o minimizada por las autoridades de salud pública, lo que llevó a estrategias de mitigación ineficaces y una falta de educación pública.
- It was known very early on that covid spreads through the air likewise flu, measles, sars1 etc etc.
- The single most catastrophic failure of the ongoing sars-2 pandemic the persistent rejection of the mountains of evidence that covid is airborne.
- The who didn't even acknowledge airborne transmission until october 2020, and had explicitly said it was not airborne in march. Imo that was the biggest public health fuckup of the pandemic.
- Historians, if you are wondering how we failed to control an airborne pandemic this is why. We were never battling the virus, instead we have been battling those in healthcare who deny it transmits as an exhaled aerosol.
- It took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus.
2. La Importancia Crítica de la Calidad del Aire Interior.
La pandemia de COVID-19 puso de manifiesto la necesidad urgente de mejorar la ventilación, la filtración y la purificación del aire en espacios interiores públicos y privados para reducir la propagación de patógenos.
- Also we should invest in better ventilation hepa filters in large workplaces public buildings.
- I don't understand why there hasn't been a concerted effort from governments to install air filtration in public buildings - most especially schools.
- Investing in clean air makes spaces safer for everyone.
- We need virus free air now for our indoor spaces that's the challenge.
- Clean air, free vax for working age people too. But hoc eton have clean air another pandemic may be just flapping over the horizon.
3. Fracaso en la Implementación de Medidas y Aprendizaje.
A pesar de las claras lecciones de la pandemia y la disponibilidad de tecnología, ha habido una sorprendente falta de acción por parte de gobiernos y empresas para implementar estándares de calidad del aire y prepararse para futuras amenazas.
- What i find deeply shocking is that, 5 years after the start of the covid pandemic, if another new airborne virus disease were to threaten that it seems we wouldn't have any better tools to fight it now than we had then.
- One of the lessons from the pandemic i keep coming back to. There was even a lot of money available to improve air quality, specifically in schools. Huge policy failure imo.
- Nothing has been done nationally to improve indoor air quality. This is the real scandal following the pandemic.
- We could have taken the last 5 years to upgrade ventilation systems in public spaces everywhere now that we know what devastation inaction causes and be prepared for the next pandemic.
- The fact we didn't pass clean indoor air regulations for all buildings as soon as covid hit is one of the largest policy failures from that airborne pandemic.
4. La Amenaza de Futuras Pandemias y la Falta de Preparación.
La comunidad científica advierte sobre la inevitabilidad de futuras pandemias, probablemente de patógenos transmitidos por el aire, pero la sociedad y los gobiernos permanecen lamentablemente desprevenidos, repitiendo los errores del pasado.
- The next pandemic will almost certainly be from an airborne pathogen since our protections against it are so weak.
- It is just a matter of time until the next pandemic arrives. And at this point we are ill prepared for it.
- If another airborne pandemic hit today, we'd be fucked. Failing to learn from failures is what destroys nations.
- Society is not preparing for the next pandemic. Why not focus on clean indoor air now rather than when its too late?!
- We don't even know if the next pandemic is going to be an airborne respiratory pandemic, for crying out loud! hyperfocusing on solutions to a respiratory pandemic leaves us unprepared for any of the other viral vectors.
5. Impacto en la Salud Pública y la Sociedad.
La persistencia de la pandemia de COVID-19 y la falta de mitigaciones adecuadas han resultado en un costo humano significativo, incluyendo muertes, discapacidad a largo plazo (Long COVID) y una carga continua sobre los sistemas de salud.
- There were over 14k deaths in 2023 in hospitals unmitigated for airborne transmission . One of them was my friend but officially the pandemic had ended.
- The ongoing, unfettered covid pandemic resulting in 100ks of long covid .
- What about the estimated 1.2 million with long covid who may be unable to work - isn't that feckin devastating too?
- The pandemic is not over covid is airborne everyone needs to advocate for masking and clean air to stop this pandemic and looming ones.
- The current scientific consensus not only accepts that clean air saves lives but is belatedly shaping new engineering protocols for schools and hospitals that, with other measures, could eventually help end the pandemic.