CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/double-m...58nbu.html

Double masking is the new black.

I'm not a big fan of this bloke, he's an IT researcher but he never states that in his articles, he lets people think he is some sort of health or virology expert.

Now he's alluding that masks were his idea, despite millions in SE Asia wearing them for most of the past 15 years!

When he published his first articles, he made a big deal about cloth masks you make at home, this was on the basis that coronavirus spreads purely by droplets, which turns out to be gravely wrong. While reducing or eliminating droplet transmission helps, it doesn't make you "safe"!

I wonder if he has published anything on a site like The Conversation, if so it would be interesting to read the feedback!

I led a scientific team that in April 2020 wrote the first and largest evidence review of masks effectiveness against the spread of COVID-19. I published an op-ed in The Washington Post and formed the #Masks4All movement that kick-started mask wearing in the US and globally. High-quality masks were not available then. So, we focused on studying cloth masks, which people could make themselves.

This sort of stuff is like claiming, I've read all the literature from many other hard workers, and I've given them a tick of approval so you can trust me, they get my gold star!

The second last sentence is pure rubbish, high quality disposable masks that perform far better than home made cloth have been a staple of the medical industry for about 30 years! The problem was when COVID hit there were groups and countries that resorted to stockpiling them!