Spec blows major scoop

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Jan 22

RE: Province failing its duty to protect.  Op-ed by Patty Coates, President of the Ontario Federation of Labour

I posted an article on this blog on 2 Aug 2020, entitled “The futility of masking.”  It reported the same thing that the column of today (at reference) reports.  In particular, that the virus is transported as like an airborne dust, and that N95 masks are the minimum protection against that size of airborne pathogen.  Cloth and surgical masks will only give a false sense of security.  The Spectator was sent a copy of that blog entry.  But in the interests of the narrative of the day and preventing the dissemination of “misinformation” the Spec suppressed the piece.  The Spectator could have had the truth out there in black and white 18 months ago.  Something Ontario’s benighted “experts” might have had to confront.  But no.

You know why Labour people know about N95s, ventilation, and other measures of protection?  Because protection against dust is a big problem in Industrial Hygiene – keeping workers safe in the workplace while exposed to high levels of dust.  Just like the virus is transported – as a fine particle in air.  That’s how I knew about them!

That the virus was transmitted as a dust was so obvious that only a medical expert couldn’t see it.  The pandemic wasn’t persisting and spreading because people were sneezing on each other!  So, what else could it be but that expelled viruses persisted in the air for long periods of time?  As a 2^nd year chemistry student can tell you, the vapour pressure over a sharply curved surface is very high, meaning the force for liquid in the tiny droplet to pass into the vapour phase is very strong.  Any liquid surrounding the virus would quickly evaporate.  You can observe this phenomenon in cold air when the moisture in your breath condenses into fog.  That fog just as quickly disappears because the water droplets evaporate nearly instantly once they move into dry enough air. Sharply curved water droplets in air don’t persist as flat surfaced water puddles or patches of ice persist.

This is basic, 2^nd year thermodynamics, and if the quote of him in the article is accurate, Dr. Moore never took thermodynamics in school, and neither did any of his colleagues.  So, what are their credentials really worth when they missed the course that would have given them the answer right away?  By August, 2020, the persistence of the pandemic in the face of all the measures to prevent its spread pointed to something important: that they had got wrong how it was spreading and at what the actual mechanism must be, i.e. as if it were a dry dust.

But the credentialed experts were too proud to admit they were completely at sea, and didn’t call in experts who might have been able to help: industrial hygienists and people generally who dealt with issues similar to this in the workplace.  They had to pretend to know, when they didn’t know and ought to have known that they didn’t.

It was known in April 2020 that lockdowns were more harmful than COVID itself on public health generally- as well as useless in the face of something so contagious, but the benighted experts continued to advise lockdowns anyway.   Even after the data from wave 2 showed that lockdowns promoted the spread for the first 3 weeks!  They locked down outdoors activities and parks in wave 1!  Have you heard any mea culpas yet from any of the experts who first ordered it?  No!  Because it might undermine their aura of expertise!

A long time ago the Spectator could have had the story, but they didn’t listen.  The Spec had a major scoop on its hands, and the editors let it slip through their fingers.

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