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Sigh! Herd immunity applies to the fact that a certain percentage (usually > 90%) is vaccinated against a specific virus. You can't herd immunize a population

Sigh! Herd immunity applies to the fact that a certain percentage (usually > 90%) is vaccinated against a specific virus. You can't herd immunize a population by letting them get sick. What the Brits are attempting, in my opinion, is sheer madness and totally irresponsible. Even when they try to backtrack from the term "herd immunity" now. Or, how do you think herd immunity ever worked on smallpox, or polio? Hint: It started to work, when people got vaccinated against smallpox and polio. Before that they got sick in a very misearble way and died. It's not that they ever developed "herd immunity" on a natural way. I also think that your suggestion to just bunker away old people in your original comment is outright offensive.

forkexec 7y ago
Offensive? Gimme a break. Necessary? Absolutely. It's a whole lot easier to reduce risks of catching a pandemic to zero than listen to obnoxious bullshit FUD suggesting not wearing masks and continue being blissfully reckless as the authorities have no plans and continue to display their complete unpreparedness. I'm buying several months of dry goods tomorrow that won't be touched for several weeks, quarantining myself outside of my mom's home for two weeks, and will stick it out 3-6 months or however long it takes.
- CaptainZapp 7y ago
  That's extremely kind of you (I mean that genuinely). But how many elderly people do you think have such support?