Thanks for the mention, Harold!

Another one of my favorite sayings is an adaptation of William Gibson’s famous quote — “the future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” If we substitute “knowledge” for the “future” his quote also works.

You mention the mainstream medical community and how the coronavirus was thought to spread. Amongst my contacts at the CDC, everyone thought that it was an airborne contagion just like TB. That part of the medical community knew what was going on, but that knowledge was NOT evenly distributed across all medical communities. Washing hands was a distraction (but still a good thing to do), curbing our aerosol spray (with masks) turned out to be a much better intervention.