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at some point enough people have had it that we can get some herd immunity kicking in
by brokensegue 7y ago
at some point enough people have had it that we can get some herd immunity kicking in
- cm2187 7y agoYes, but I don’t think this is what quarantine achieves.
- brokensegue 7y agoquarantine slows the spread to a level the hospitals can deal with
- hk__2 7y agoRight now we don’t know if immunity lasts long enough for herd immunity to work.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoHerd immunity = aka giving up and killing millions globally. Fuck that shit and arrest everyone who suggests it on crimes against humanity.
- brokensegue 7y agono you quarantine to slow the spread so you slowly infect everyone and the hospital system keeps up. then you release quarantine and boom herd immunity saves you. or a vaccine.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoIn pressure cooker environments, bacteria are known to mutate at higher rates. When we kill enough of a species, infections typical of that species tend to jump species. We've never had 7 billion people on the planet before. I (very unscientifically) feel like this is turning global in a way that I haven't seen previously. The world is in all new territory. I wouldn't count on things working like anything we have seen previously.
- brokensegue 7y agoplease calm down. the laws of physics haven't changed. we'll likely have a vaccine in a few years at worst. we survived the flu of 1918 without all this new-fangled technology.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoplease calm down. I'm not being hysterical. The laws don't have to change for them to work differently when conditions change. We are in a situation the world has not seen before. I don't think you can realistically predict where this is going. There's nothing hysterical or crazy about making that observation.
- brokensegue 7y agowell the epidemiologists do think they can predict the course and make useful suggestions. South Korea basically beat this thing already. Meanwhile non-scientific beliefs that "things are different this time" are usually wrong.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoYeah, so, I think you are reading in something I never said. It sounds to me like you are hearing some doomsday prediction I never made. All I said was "I don't think we can predict where this goes." That's it. That's my entire point. And I don't know why you have such a problem with that.