Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak www.npr.org/sections/sho...

28.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 51    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 3

Immediately also blocked by Peter Daszak and Kristian Anderson. Impressively quick.

03.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blocked by Flo Debarre, just seconds after posting this.

03.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why would failing to mention the FCS to BSEG exonerate Baric?
How can you be so naive?

Baric discussed the FCS with virologists just days after the BSEG presentation, indicating any “miss” was at most temporary or not a miss at all.

03.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nonsense.

The lab leak theory is perfectly plausible. In fact, when viewed objectively, it is a much more likely explanation than the problematic market theory.

19.08.2025 10:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Antoine Lavoisier, 1785:

“It is frightening to think that, in a large assembly, the air that each individual breathes has passed over and over again (…)through the lungs of all those present, and that it must have been charged with(…)putrid exhalations; but what is the nature of these emanations?”

19.08.2025 09:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“This question of the relation of ventilation to the risks of infection conveyed directly through the air from person to person is, to my mind, probably the most important one in connection with the whole subject which we are discussing.”

John Scott Haldane, 1904.

19.08.2025 09:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also not mentioned in Airborne by @carlzimmer.com is John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), the great Scottish physicist. He pioneered systematic CO₂ monitoring in public buildings and cannot be dismissed as a miasmist.👇

19.08.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Benjamin Marten in 1720:

19.08.2025 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks! That's just the little push I needed to dig out some of the Bob Shaw books that I once bought in a second-hand bookshop!

19.08.2025 08:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great book indeed.

What I missed a bit were some important but forgotten scholars from the 18th century, like Benjamin Marten, William Hillary, John Haygarth,… who were on the right track to the truth of airborne transmission. The history is more complex than just miasma vs contagion.

19.08.2025 08:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Humans have no organ to detect high CO2-levels, unlike some animals which had evolutionary benefits from such an ability. Our ancestors lived mostly outside, so there wasn't any need for this. Yet nowadays, the lack of an inbuilt detection mechanism causes inefficient behaviour.

06.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0