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Do you realise that thus far about 0.1% of the population has been infected, but herd immunity requires somewhere between 60% - 80% of the population to be immu
by jfoster 7y ago
Do you realise that thus far about 0.1% of the population has been infected, but herd immunity requires somewhere between 60% - 80% of the population to be immune? A vaccine will be available much quicker than herd immunity obtained through infection unless you do want to go through the overwhelmed hospital system (or just no hospital system) for many months.
Do you realise that immunity for this virus may not be lasting?
Your plan requires millions more lives be sacrificed just so that the ID of one of your many electronic devices isn't recorded by some other devices. It's already public anyway, by the way. That said, this plan wouldn't happen anyway. People will not willingly be infected. Herd immunity through infection is not possible.
- rstupek 7y agoI'm not sure you can definitively state .1% of the population has been infected with any certainty.
- jfoster 7y agoNot with certainty. I'm stating the population that has been tested positive in the US. I apologise, as it's actually more like 0.16% (per https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/), so call it 0.2%. Let's even go so far as to assume that there are 10x as many people infected who haven't been recorded. That would make it 2%. Herd immunity through infection is still 30x - 40x away from where the US population is. Vaccine will still be sooner unless allowing for the hospital system to become overwhelmed.