Initial infection control measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic were drafted in the absence of strong evidence on transmission routes for the new coronavirus. For historical reasons (Molteni, 2021) the emphasis was on fomite and respiratory droplets. However, this focus ended up being misguided. By the summer of 2020, it became clear that the virus was likely airborne and by early 2021 the scientific consensus was that most COVID cases were caused by aerosol transmission (Allen & Ibrahim, 2021; Tang, Marr, Li, & Dancer, 2021). However, it also soon became clear that most Western state-run public health bureaucracies – as well as international public health bodies such as the WHO – actively defended erroneous initial theories on COVID transmission long after it was rational to do so. Instead of working toward the development and communication of evidence-based COVID prevention strategies, public health institutions found themselves stonewalling and actively contradicting scientific developments in the field (Greenhalgh, Ozbilgin, & Contandriopoulos, 2021).