Don't waste your time, he has to be trolling especially when faucet said "we kind of made it up...)
I suppose "I am the science" believes in his absolute rights given by being the sociopathic centre of the universe. Either mentally handicapped or trolling, either way a waste of time.
No, I rarely find interactions with that poster to be in good faith, so I don’t bother with it most of the time. That’s why he didn’t get a response. You don’t seem much better, so this is probably the only response you’ll get too.
So let’s break this down. The first thing I want to point out is that you said:
faucet said "we kind of made it up...)
—when actually,
Republican Brad Wentrup (R-OH) is characterizing Fauci as having said that. Neither you or I know what Fauci actually said, because the transcript is not yet available. I’m interested to see it, I hope Republicans make it available quickly. (Wentrup’s little summary that he released pretty clearly used biased and loaded language, and was of little value.)
But I’d be pretty surprised if that’s what Fauci said. Because these guidelines have existed and been advised for a long time prior to COVID. Here in the
2007 CDC Guide, on p.18 under the section
I.B.3.b Droplet Transmission, it notes that
“…investigations during the global SARS outbreaks of 2003 suggest that droplets from patients…could reach persons 6 feet or more from their source.”
It goes on to note that,
“…the distance droplets travel depends on the velocity and mechanism by which respiratory droplets are propelled from the source, the density of respiratory secretions, environmental factors such as temperature and humidity, and the ability of the pathogen to maintain infectivity over that distance.”
Because of all this,
“it may be prudent to don a mask within 6 to 10 feet of the patient.”
This guideline was updated to a
minimum of 6 feet by the CDC during the
2009 H1N1 outbreak.
It wasn’t made up during COVID, it wasn’t made up by Fauci—and it wasn’t made up without scientific basis, which is easily easily apparent from the manual’s 50-ish pages of references with hundreds of citations. I certainly never made any claim for mandating some assortment of various procedures that have no scientific basis.
I think instead of using the word “arbitrary,” I should’ve said “absolute,” or something similar. My point there was that past CDC guidelines have said things like “<3 feet,” or “6-10 feet,” or “6 feet minimum“; so during COVID, they could’ve chosen a variety of distances from which to formulate the guideline; they could’ve said to social distance at 6 feet, 7 feet, 8 feet, etc. Airborne droplets obviously don’t hit some magical FauciForcefield
at the 6 foot mark. 6 feet was never meant signify that, it’s one of many distances that could’ve been chosen. But that’s not to say it was chosen at random and without any basis, it absolutely was not.
Lastly, it’s pretty damn ironic that you want to come at me with ad hominem attacks accusing me of being sociopathic and thinking I’m the center of the universe. Professionally, I work for a company that provides solutions in the various educational markets, we worked our ass off to design products, partner with manufacturers, and redesign classrooms and spaces that allowed children in a whole shitload of school districts in this country to go back to school, in person, largely without masks, while still staying safe from COVID.
Wtf were you doing, other than spreading bullshit, CTs, and misinformation that made my job harder and put people at risk? Likewise, my decisions to mask, to respect people’s personal space, and to vax, were decisions I made for the
overall greater good to help mitigate the spread of a virus through the community. Wtf did you do other than bitch and whine about your own inconveniences?
Anyway, I didn’t mean to interrupt your guys’ Tin Foil Circle Jerk and Sharing of Memes, so you just go right ahead and carry on.
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