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Eric Topol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

He said, this is so mind boggling to me.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

It just made it obvious that they were full of shit.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

Now, that's basically what he's saying about these people that are holding onto this liquid droplet crap and that there's no airborne.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

But we know, for example,

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

when you can't see cigarette smoke, you can't see the perfume odor, but you can smell it, that there's stuff in the air, it's airborne, and it's not necessarily three or six feet away.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

There's something here that doesn't compute in people's minds.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

And by the way, even by March and April, there were videos like the one that Lydia showed in 2018 that were circling around to show, hey, you know, this stuff is all over the place.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

It's not just, you know, the mouth going to the other person.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

So then this group of 36 got together.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

which included the people we're talking about, other people who I know like Joe Allen and many really great contributors.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

And they lobbied the CDC and the WHO to get with it.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

But it seemed like it took two years.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

Well, yeah, I mean, we went from March 2020 when it was Captain Obvious with the choir to the end of 2021 with Omicron before this got recognized, which is amazing to me when you look back, right?

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

That here you've got millions of people dying and getting infected, getting long COVID, all this stuff.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

And we have this denial of what is the real way of transmission.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

Now, this was not just a science conflict.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

This is that we had people saying you don't need to wear masks.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

People like Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General, people like Tony Fauci, you know, before there was an adjustment later.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

Oh, you don't need masks, you just stay more than six feet away.

Ground Truths
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

And meanwhile, you know, the other parts of the world, like as you pointed out in Japan with the three C's, they're already into, hey, you know, this is airborne and don't go into rooms indoors with a lot of people and...