The public guidance on “airborne” vs “droplet” transmission is deeply harmful. Public health officials have too-narrowly defined the word “airborne”. In choosing jargon over plain language, they’ve misled the public.
Just like with the masks and once again it's going to get people killed because when/if they do finally reverse their position/messaging people will not hear the correction or just harbor so much distrust they shut down all together. We are /still/ dealing with "It's just the Flu" people even with the president no longer saying that.