Early one morning, Linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset, and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She also saw a few people she didn’t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for Covid-19, and other expert advisers to the WHO. It was just past 1 pm Geneva time on April 3, 2020, but in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Marr lives with her husband and two children, dawn was just beginning to break.
Marr is an aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech and one of the few in the world who also studies infectious diseases. To her, the new coronavirus looked as if it could hang in the air, infecting anyone who breathed in enough of it. For people indoors, that posed a considerable risk. But the WHO didn’t seem to have caught on. Just days before, the organization had tweeted “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.” That’s why Marr was skipping her usual morning workout to join 35 other aerosol scientists. They were trying to […]
Thank you for sharing a story of perseverance in the face of credentialed resistance. Brings to mind the sad story of Dr. Semmelweis who came to a bad end due to the professional resistance to his “radical ideas” that today seem very obvious. The phrase that is over used is “follow the science”. Which science? Whose science? The facts are always evolving because nature is always evolving, sickness/death can be a powerful motivator.
Of Course this kind of truth telling begs the question- what else have the experts gotten wrong in the last year? Should we trust the science and the medical establishment to do what is best for us? How many lives were lost or destroyed because of bad science and censorship? Or are yet to be destroyed? Only time will tell……
I agree with you, Teresa. Censorship is a horrible. Think about how much good Tesla could have done if he wasn’t censored. Even though he was censored, he still did a lot of good while he was alive. If it wasn’t for Tesla, we probably would have had electric cars much sooner, and many other electrical components and devices which no has yet to dream of.
This story is a real eye opener. I have been careful because I have always thought that the 6 ft. rule was not good enough and that an airborne disease was something was something that lingered, and not just from droplets in close distance. Than God I had more sense than most of these other people who walked around without masks. Heck, a person just walking by you yard could give you the virus. That is why I have stayed away from people, even my family members all through this tragic situation, and was careful to always wear a mask.
I think the idea of having ozone generators and ultra-violet light creators in the school’s ventilation systems would greatly decrease the amount of virus spreading in our schools.