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no, the point of the article was that while there are competing theories of transmission, the centrality of the ballistic transmission mechanism has been known
by clairity 7y ago
no, the point of the article was that while there are competing theories of transmission, the centrality of the ballistic transmission mechanism has been known for a while (from prior coronavirus studies) and has been relatively undisputed as the primary transmission vector. to wit (from the article),
> "When do COVID-19 SSEs happen? Based on the list I’ve assembled, the short answer is: Wherever and whenever people are up in each other’s faces, laughing, shouting, cheering, sobbing, singing, greeting, and praying. You don’t have to be a 19th-century German bacteriologist or MIT expert in mucosalivary ballistics to understand what this tells us about the most likely mode of transmission."