Originally Posted by
Frank_B
This is a question I've been wanting to ask someone in the field since the beginning. Remember in February or March of last year when Fauci said, "There's no real need to wear masks right now. Most of the transmissions are believed to have come from surface contact." I remember it clearly on 60 Minutes in March of 2020, two months after he stated that COVID-19 wasn't a big deal.
My question is: how many viruses that cause respiratory diseases use surface contact as a primary transmission vector? I don't mean to sound flippant.... Well, maybe just a bit... But, I learned this stuff in 6th grade science class. We had the nation's top infectious disease specialist telling us not to stick our hands in goo and lick our fingers or poke our eyes because that's how the world was going to come to an end. When you look at the man's history of being a foolish clown, this is one part that gets glossed over quickly. I anticipate that you'll fall back on, "That was where the evidence led us at the time," but that's a shitty excuse and a complete failure to think with just the slightest bit of common sense.
I do believe that the scientific method, applied properly, will yield the most correct answers over time. That said, sometimes it takes a very long time (think of advances in physics from Newton to Einstein), and in a situation that requires answers, sometimes common sense and anecdote is a better solution to getting things done.