Colds, flu and Covid are mainly spread through the air and not by sharing cups and getting close to one another, World Health Organisation experts have suggested in a new report. The Mail has the story.
New guidance by a coalition of nearly 50 doctors overturned the commonly believed idea that infected droplets transferred from hard surfaces and skin are the cause of respiratory viruses like colds and flu.
The decision settled a Covid-era debate about whether some viruses like Covid spread mostly through inhaling infected air, or from contaminated surfaces.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, experts in virology welcomed the conclusion that surfaces are not as vital as previously thought, which they say should have been confirmed early on in the pandemic.
Dr. Don Milton, an expert on respiratory viruses and co-author of the new WHO guidance, told DailyMail.com: “We know that for gastrointestinal infections [hand washing and being careful touching surfaces like cups] are going to be important.
“How important they are for respiratory viruses, I think is probably a lot less.”
The WHO guidance applied to all pathogens that cause lung infections, including Covid, influenza and rhinovirus.
The report did not include non-respiratory infections, such as GI infections like norovirus, which can be spread via germs on the hands.
Until late 2020, the WHO had only considered a few infections as airborne, such as tuberculosis and measles. Most of them were classified as “droplet transmission”.
Covid was classified the same way at first. That messaging prompted millions of people in early 2020 to disinfect every surface, including groceries and mail. This even drove a shortage of cleaning supplies at the time.
But evidence grew that Covid could be transmitted via aerosolised particles. Suspended particles can remain in the air for hours, casting a pathogenic cloud over an infected person that follows him wherever he goes.
Worth reading in full.
So what was the point of social distancing, keeping 2m apart and erecting billions of Perspex barriers then? Not to mention face masks, which only block larger droplets and are useless against airborne pathogens. And does it mean the WHO won’t recommend such nonsense in a future ‘pandemic’? We’ll believe it when we see it.
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Will they ever have the guts to produce the report that shows that there is no evidence jabs and vax passports did anything?
“For much of 2021, official messaging was dominated by two rival discourses that I nicknamed Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine.”
Both “teams” clearly won and got their wish, but Team Vaccine is the 900-pound gorilla ruling the world.
All the world’s “Public Health” agencies are now Vaccine Promotion Agencies. Nor is this going to change.
Of course it would change in one day if some big mainstream media expose proved that the vaccines are “dangerous and ineffective.” But such an expose will never come.
Presenting the other team, Team What Exactly Is The Problem We’re Trying To Solve, got nowhere. The still, small voice of calm, eh…
A step in the right direction – better than nothing.
Good to see a variety of original pieces by different authors here.
Some have complained about the £5 charge to post (and some may be justified e.g. Swedenborg as he put in a lot more than he got out) but I look upon it as a contribution to the education of the waverers and those late to the sceptic side.
The site has to have some decent revenue streams to keep producing excellent and important content. Hopefully, the more revenue that comes in, we’ll get even more excellent content. I thought this was a good compromise/solution. People can still read the articles and the Comments for free. For a small donation, they can get the “added value” of posting.
I’ll also be interested to see who advertises here in the future. I’m going to try to support the companies that support a truth-seeking, free-speech-supporting company.
Hear, hear.
That’s a great idea BillRiceJr, regarding supporting the advertisers. I hadn’t thought about that but any company should deserve a certain amount of respect for having the courage to go against the grain. I like to think that in the long run, as the harms of Covid policy are more obviously demonstrated to the public, the courage of these advertisers will be rewarded. As sceptics, we have a huge battle on our hands but we can win eventually through taking lots of small, progressive steps – this being one small example perhaps.
Alienating a lot of regular contributors, as evidenced by the fact that the comment section is now basically dead, isn’t going to bring in much revenue.
Fair comment.
Re SW – clearly he put in a lot of effort and I respect that and his knowledge however, as I have posted before, I gave up reading the posts because graphs and charts and reams of statistics bore me. We won the evidence battle very early, arguably with the Diamond Princess.
SW might well believe that in view of his contributions he was entitled to a free subscription. The editors thought otherwise and they are right. I did not join in order to pour over statistics and if that was all that DS offered I would not have joined in the first place.
Fighting the Scamdemic has never really been about numbers, I agree. The numbers of the whole affair are pretty simple, imho. As I have said before, too many times, it was obvious to anyone with an ounce of scepticism that “something was up” in February and March 2020 when governments, global media, experts everywhere were making such a big deal – and almost entirely uniformly! – of decidedly unremarkable daily mortalities.
From then on, it was a battle for hearts, which people like us have been losing by trying to use reason in the face of an incredibly well-funded Hype Machine…
I don’t think we’ll ever win it. Humans stumble on, from one essentially self-inflicted and entirely unnecessary catastrophe to the next.
Anything by Eugyppius is well worth the read (also, nearly every article on DS despite some of the comments).
I will read this article later, after posting a raspberry to any on here who have been chunterinf at those of us who have supposedly vanished when a donation was requested. (I’m looking at YOU, hp and Cg….)
It’s taken me about a week to get access to comments a mere fortnight after donating considerably more than 5 quid (thank you for your help and patience, Will!)
Turns out it was an email mismatch problem, sorted after much anguish and many emails to and from mods. Others may have similar issues, so can we cut each other a bit of slack? Ta.
Good morning Jane!
I thought it might be something of the sort. I’m glad you got it sorted. I’m planning a post on the matter on the News Round-up section for today and hope to do some good on that front. I must admit I was guilty of intemperate posts on the matter once or twice. Still, by the same token, there are reasons why others didn’t have problems and didn’t realise the problems others were having. Speaking for myself, I always sign in again anyway and have long since memorised my password, so it was just a question of making sure I had made the required donation to comment. However, I understand that it is not the same for other people who, apparently, stay signed in permanently (among other things) and I apologise if one or two of my posts have been unfair to people.
Thanks, Hugh and good morning back at you.
Back to business….
This is important because the WHO etc are in the process of modifying their recommendations to include lockdowns as a valid pandemic response.
China’s WHO are a lot of vile scum. We need a campaign to break free of these types of rotters, same as we had with the Brussels (and Strassburg and Letzebuerg) regime. I supported this campaign (in 2015 among other times) but the late, great Christopher Booker had us well briefed that the EU simply enacted a lot of rules passed onto them by other international organisations (over which Norway had more influence than us as an independent member rather than just one small part of the EU).
“Ich schuetze dich”? More like “Ich bin nicht schuld”…