Science Journalism

This post is not about the Jules Verne fantasy; however, checking news sources from the Associated Press and the BBC to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-- one comes away with horror and doomsday scenarios. I refer to the countries of India and Brazil. While many of us in the US are lucky to  have been vaccinated, India and Brazil fell into complacent states that scream horror. No oxygen tanks for those fallen ill and fewer options for many who have no doctors. We, as a world community, must ask ourselves -- are we our brother's keeper? While I will end my complaints about the former president of the US who called COVID-19 a Leftist hoax and advocated for quack remedies, I post this in the hopes that those of us who have been vaccinated will be kind to their neighbor, friend, or enemy.  If you can do anything, take time out of your day for a moment of silence for those with no resources to combat a seemingly preventable pandemic.    

While at the American Chemical Society (ACS) website, my eyes stopped at the following title, Airborne Transmission of COVID-19: Aerosol Dispersion, Lung Deposition, and Virus Receptor Interactions. The lead author, Yi Y. Zuo and his two co-workers are affiliated with reputable US Universities. The article, itself, is from the ACS journal, NANO, the title is short for nanotechnology. The field of nanotechnology was originally launched from lecture given by the late Richard P. Feynman at the California Institute of Technology in 1960. JUSTIFYING THE BAD-SCIENCE? COVID-19 transmission perplexes those of us who watch public figures continue to assert COVID-19 as not dangerous. Many of us continue to mask up and have received a vaccination. Whether for personal gain or perceived political advantage, public officials continue to harm their constituents. When the COVID-19 issue was labeled a hoax in 2020, conspiracy theorists seized on public perceptions of vaccines and masking to equate to