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Yall. I will probably never not be mad about this.

There was a big article in Wired magazine titled "The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill" ( https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ behind a paywall, but https://archive.ph/pzGCD ) abstracted "All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences."

It's an okay article, and has many informative things to say, but doesn't go deep enough, and it chalks the controversy of how far viable infectious material travels through the air up to a basic physics mistake.

I'm sorry. This wasn't just a physics mistake.

This was a *psychological* mistake.

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