Years later I still run into people not aware of the semantics and the difference between a disease being an aerosol and a disease being airborne. Which smacks of poor communication.
The root cause is that intelligent, educated people misunderestimate the reactionary idea among the masses that their ignorance is just as, or more, valid.
Revolutions are not won by people who are smart at facts but by people who are smart at manipulating ignorance.
Lots of people are bad at listening/reading, sadly.
There's only so much that can be done as a speaker/writer. They could and should have done more here, but there will always be a lossy step when people doing the actual work take the information to "the public".
Airborne: Done or being in the air : being off the ground ... [0]
Aerosol: A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in gas [1]
Air: The mixture of invisible odorless tasteless gases (such as nitrogen and oxygen) that surrounds the earth. Also : the equivalent mix of gases on another planet [3]
