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> I haven't forgotten that it was something like 6 months before the government revealed that Cov-19 was a respiratory transmission despite knowing in Dec 2019.

Can you expound upon this? Your claim is some government said in May that Covid was a respiratory disease?



I'll dig it up, but it wasnt that long agi. We all lived through it.

Remember washing vegetables and surfaces because they were telling us in the US about fomites and surface transmission after touching your face? It was a long time before the CDC recommended masks, and that outdoor transmission was far less likely.


Here this from 2021 should do. Sorry NyTimes paywall, but the first paragraph tells where it. There is a lot out there about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...




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