skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@JoePajak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JoePajak</span></a></span> </p><p>"After William died in 1963, public health experts largely dismissed the concerns he and Mildred had raised about airborne infections – a tragic mistake that left the world unprepared for the covid-19 pandemic. But the couple did manage to persuade the scientific community that tuberculosis, at least, was airborne."</p><p>Superstition was closer to reality than science?</p><p>Seems an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiMiasmaSentiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiMiasmaSentiment</span></a> was stronger in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificCommunity</span></a> than a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProExperimentationResolve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProExperimentationResolve</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Airborne</span></a></p>