Well, there are some good ideas in their statement, that are already being done. But there are some idiotic things in there as well.

Everybody should be told to wear N95 or similar masks. Of course about a third of the US population thinks this is unacceptable as a violation of their freedom. So any idea how to get them to wear them?

It is time to go beyond opening windows and aim for a paradigm shift to ensure all public buildings are optimally designed, built, adapted, and utilised to maximise clean air for occupants—strategies which have been shown to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Building design and construction? Those take quite a long time. NOT a useful strategy for cutting transmission, when you can just put some big fans in all the windows within a few days.

Better contact tracing? I already explained exactly why contact tracing can't work with SARS-COV2 unless you lock everybody in the world up. And then everybody would starve to death. It's a characteristic of the virus that you get lots of asymptomatic cases who can still spread it. Contact tracing is miserable with this virus. Not because tracers don't try, but because they miss 90% of the infections.

Their "solution" is that if we had lower infection rates, it would be easier to deal with: DUH

BTW, did you know Peter Hotez's group at Baylor has just got an Indian EUA for a patent-free protein-based vaccine, and hooked up with an big Indian drug maker to mass produce it. It promises to be even cheaper than the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to make. Their strategy is to transfer the technology to anybody who can make it.


Educating anyone benefits everyone.