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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Aside from “NOT airborne”, note the WHO has a 1m distance.
Is this making a case for locking-up people at home so that a) there is a justification for having done it and b) an excuse for doing it again?
How would they be able to lock people up at home? Most people are no longer as naive as in 2020. There is more of us than them, so how would they stop us?
If there’s a civil war between those who think people should be locked up at home and those of us who refuse to comply, the ‘lock people up at home’ side will be somewhat hampered by the fact that they’ll be staying at home!
https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q?si=lTdSWllGxE1C1Ggb
I’d like to think you’re correct and any such policy would be ignored.
However, let’s not underestimate the playbook of incentivisation and coercion.
and as we saw during Classic COVID, the rules don’t apply to those promoting the rules e.g. government advisers travelling about, Westminster bridge mass gatherings with police participating, nurses and researchers not adhering to social distancing to promote lockdown and social distancing etc.
But those hypocrites breaking their own rules is exactly what has caused many people to be more sceptical and distrustful and unlikely to comply if there’s a next time.
Threats and violence go a long way. Do we really know how children raised during such restrictions will respond as adults to a similar event?
If all else fails, someone will start a war.
I agree more are aware but not nearly enough. As long as the BBC has free reign the public will be none the wiser. Just caught the BBC on radio earlier. Banging on about Lockdowns, vaccine science and how much we have learned about science and big projects like Warp Speed. Aye, that is also called fascism.
Well this startling revelation coming in the medieval 21st century is astounding. Talk about the things we didn’t know.
Now why is this information being put out?
Ot to paraphrase Neil Oliver – it’s not always about what they say it’s about.
On his video he was talking about a random Tweet he put out that got a lot of attention, he said ‘are the baddies in a panic’.
Yes, I saw that vid last night.
The point of saying it wasn’t airborne was so they could impose mask mandates which reinforced the “deadly pandemic” lie.
“Covid” (if it exists) IS a cold, isn’t it?
According to the cold experts at BHF:
“Colds are caused by many different viruses, but most commonly a rhinovirus or a coronavirus (not the same type of coronavirus that causes Covid-19).”
Nice caveat.
Yeah, “covid” has to be different. The “disease” with a list of symptoms as long as your arm and no apparent defining features.
Included in the long list of symptoms for Covid is having no symptoms:
“COVID-19 can affect many different parts of your body and cause general symptoms that have many potential causes. Some people with COVID-19 don’t develop any symptoms.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/sure-signs-you-ve-already-had-covid#signs
Lol you couldn’t make this stuff up could you? If “covid” exists I expect I’ve had it as I’ve had some colds/flu type stuff since 2019. They all felt like variations on colds and flus I’d had before.
Dr Mike Yeadon is adamant there is no such disease as covid.
He may well be right. I don’t really know. I’ve certainly not experienced anything “novel” and no-one known to me personally has done, but I’ve seen others – sceptics, not covidians – post online that they had something they’d never had before.
Hence a PCR to tell you if you are ill. And 34 billion on Test & Trace. That epic waste of money should land Sunak in Jail.
My view is that the £34 billion on T & T was a cover story for installing lots and lots of track and Trace infrastructure particularly on roads – just look at new cameras everywhere, and there will be command centres, wages etc. The intention has been to wind us up and largely it has worked. The money wasn’t spaffed it was targeted expenditure but spaffed acts as wonderful cover.
I have heard people say that everything they did that seems like chaos was not a mistake. One example, Traffic Light System for holidays, that is one way to wind people up, though I did expect more anger from the public. I bet they got a kick out of confusing confused Brits having to rush against the clock not to have an extended holiday in some quarantine centre, and have to pay 2k for the pleasure, absolute evil.
But it IS the same type, that is why it is called ‘coronavirus’ because that is a type of RNA virus in Humans and animals which causes respiratory disease. It may have different structural characteristics, but so do the other coronaviruses.
If it were not the same ‘type’ it wouldn’t be called a coronavirus.
As of the end of January 2024, the BHF vaccine FAQ unambiguously states that the COVID vaccines are safe although if you the look at whether it is safe for people taking blood thinners it says”In general, yes” which contradicts the response to the broader question as does the mention of side effects.
If I need advice on town centre real estate, BHF might be a go-to but not for COVID and related products.
BHF?
Oh, you mean Flora corporation (Upfield Holdings B V).
The BHF is a sham organisation which has supported the C1984 story from the start. When enough people wake up the top of the BHF will be bailing out faster than Fishy and his cohorts later this year.
Naturopaths have been saying for more than 100 years that there is only one disease: toxemia.
https://sunwarrior.com/blogs/health-hub/only-one-disease
Wrong – it’s Government, caused by psychopaths.
Note that the image of the WHO FACT output might be just about correct, but only in as much as it mentions the name of the alleged disease itself, not that of the virus believed to have caused it. The virus would have been, and is, airborne – but the actual illness resides in the infected person. No shortage of linguistic manipulation during the débacle, though.
Conflating disease with the pathogen was part of the strategy of causing confusion so people wouldn’t think it just another Cold virus – which of course it is.
Disease is a set of signs and symptoms which are the same set for all respiratory viruses, although the whole set may not exhibit in everyone or with every variant. There cannot be asymptomatic disease. No symptoms = no disease.
It isn’t possible to make a differential diagnosis from the signs and symptoms, therefore. There is no such disease as Covid-19: it is short for coronavirus disease 2019, which is just the same as coronavirus disease – Covid – from every other year, caused by any one of the Human coronaviruses that cause 10% of Common Colds.
It may well be true that one can’t actually determine the existence of it via signs and symptoms, but it didn’t prevent the dental surgery I use as a patient having a go at it. They require us to update our online bumf in their account before turning up for an appointment, and earlier this year it still had a special section (image attached) to complete. Perhaps it will be deleted eventually.
It might well be common knowledge, but the name coronavirus was coined by the Common Cold Unit in Salisbury, when it was identified optically by an electron microscope.
We knew that prior to March 2020 after decades of research and observation. We knew respiratory viruses were spread by airbourne aerosols, accumulating and circulating in enclosed spaces – like you see dust in the air caught in a shaft of sunlight – because this is a far more efficient way for the virus to spread, as it needs no close contact – the infectious person does not even have still to be there – hangs around for hours, moves with air currents and ventilation systems, and cannot be easily prevented.
Evolution being opportunistic, viruses which spread this way were far better adapted to their environment than those using droplets, therefore reproduced more successfully and dominated.
And… when we cough or sneeze, we expel droplets travelling at over 80mph – 1.5m or 2m isn’t going to help… maybe a football field length might help a bit.
Wanna bet that most people will go: “see, of course masks work; it is spread through the air”
Just because the WHO says something, it doesn’t settle the debate.
Personally I don’t think they actually have a f**king clue about how viruses spread.
This is what they say now. We’ll see what they say in the future.
Maybe they, and it would seem most other medical experts should have studied books by Hope- Simpson who spent decades studying the transmission of the myriad number of URI’s aka FLU.
Conlusion. They’re all spread from the atmosphere. Nobody escapes being touched by them – but only a tiny fraction of us actually get sick at any one time.
I think it’s due to something called the immune system – which serves us perfectly well
-unless some crazy scientists create something which buggers about with it, so enter the miracle of modified RNA, soon to be compulsory it would seem….
They have no idea what they’re messing about with
Never Forget. Nature Bats Last..
Thanks for the info on Hope-Simpson. Some very interesting studies,
What next? A startling revelation that coal is black? Have these people never heard anyone complain “There was this guy on the bus coughing and sneezing …”? I’ve known all my life they are spread through the air that’s why people locked in their houses catch things with no contact with anyone for heavens sakes. Lockdowns were entirely the wrong thing to do.
Indeed ……… it is also known that viruses behave in a certain way and ‘select’ for their survival by becoming less pathogenic and more transmissible in approaching endemic equilibrium.
Except on the BBC of course!
I guess the solution the WHO will recommend in future is to lock people into airtight capsules …. to “save”them.
We should perhaps acknowledge that at the time we didn’t know what the method(s) of transmission were. The evidence pointed in several directions. I watched carefully at the beginning and sat on the fence. It is easy to be critical in hindsight. That said, the draconian enforcement of rules, the hysterical denials of dissenting opinions and the harassment and demeaning of sceptics was quite wrong. Neither was it long before serious commentators got to the heart of the matter – that what mattered was to protect the vulnerable and leave everyone else alone. And also to treat those who got really sick with the right therapy. Trying to stop transmission was as futile an exercise as King Cnut trying to stop the tide coming in, although of course he knew he couldn’t, and was trying to prove it to his disbelieving courtiers.
What I find distressing though is the abject failure of those in authority to apologise for their behaviour now that the evidence that they were wrong is overwhelming. But then was it not always thus? We have only to look at the contaminated blood scandal and the Post Office’s Horizon debacle to see that.