Agree with all you say but would add that those large droplets from sneezing etc are not the greatest vehicle for the virus so itβs like fighting a house fire with Solo cups of water.
Right, but if memory serves me correctly droplet based transmission was the prevailing theory for the first few months while the WHO was oscillating like a pendulum on its masking recommendations.
> droplet based transmission was the prevailing theory for the first few months
iirc that was the prevailing theory until after the vaccines came out. I don't recall it ever being in the news when it was determined to be airborne. By that time, COVID wasn't even newsworthy.
Definitely, I don't think official channels recognized aerosolized transmission until way too late, and even when they did it was very low key and non-committal.
I'm on team "ball was dropped badly re pandemic policy and communication", though I personally don't extend that to blind distrust in institutions in general. It was a tough (arguably unprecedented) situation in a media landscape primed for misinformation.
