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by calyth2018 1598 days ago
> because of dogma like disbelief in aerosol transmission

It's not just that COVID can spread via aerosol. It's more so that the western world extrapolated the definition via a study on TB, neglecting that TB needed to infect deep in the lungs.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

There is a scientific paper version of this, btw.