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"Yet virtually nobody seems to be talking about this -- about herd immunity, about how there's zero chance of a lockdown eradicating the virus, about coming to
by mcnamaratw 7y ago
"Yet virtually nobody seems to be talking about this -- about herd immunity, about how there's zero chance of a lockdown eradicating the virus, about coming to terms with what "flattening the curve" really means and when we decide it's been flattened enough."
To me this seems like what everyone is talking about all the time.
- crazygringo 7y agoI don't think so -- my impression is that most people are under the impression that we flatten the curve, end the lockdown, and the end result is that most people will not ever get the virus and it will no longer be a problem. I don't see people acknowledging the fact that a large percentage of people, if not a large majority of the population probably, are eventually going to get it. Right now what people are talking about is "lockdown now" and "we don't know when it will end". Not about when the right time is for it to end, or the reality that there will obviously be a surge in cases once it does. (Assuming that the virus doesn't spread to large/majority percent of the population during lockdown anyways.) I think most people are hoping a vaccine will show up in a month or something and that will fix things. When the reality seems to be that a vaccine is something like a year away.
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- mcnamaratw 7y agoThe message is going out. I don't know whether it's getting to people. It would help if the main news story were supporting the medical and public health responses to the pandemic. Instead 80% of the press seems to believe that the main story right now is to keep on signaling which side they're on in the political food fight.