• blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    lol isn't this like the same wording they used with COVID-19. All these institutions have just banned themselves from using the word airborne because it's inconvenient.

    “It’s important [for our corporate profits] not to put this on the same level as a novel coronavirus.”

    lol, lmao.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    so this one is probably more fomite transmissible than COVID

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      "They got a sayin' in Tennessee I think it's Tennessee..." - fuck off Dubya. Fuck you and your efforts to burnish your reputation even more.

  • FirstToServe [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Airborne probably means it can be aerosolized. So they're saying this needs droplets as a medium.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      The distinction between a scientific understanding of the problem and a layman's risk-assessment of the problem.

      Regardless, I predict this will get the AIDS treatment - particularly by western conservatives - as it becomes flagged as a "gay sex disease" that is used to justify persecution of anyone infected as immoral.