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Herd immunity will likely never equal zero cases... the point is to prioritize herd immunity in the low-risk populace for the sake of the high-risk.
by ezekg 6y ago
Herd immunity will likely never equal zero cases... the point is to prioritize herd immunity in the low-risk populace for the sake of the high-risk.
- mindslight 6y agoThat's a nice hypothesis, but until it has been tested, that's what it remains. If Sweden is testing it that's nice for everyone else, but there's no need to run the experiment multiple times in parallel. It's amazing to me that people so purportedly pro-freedom eagerly want the government to perform a public health experiment on the entire country. That's quite totalitarian if you ask me. BTW by saying that mask wearing is opposed to herd immunity, you are tacitly agreeing that masks work to slow the spread.
- ezekg 6y agoHow is me calling for less government totalitarian?
- mindslight 6y agoDeciding to run a large scale experiment of whether herd immunity is a worthwhile strategy for a novel disease is itself a top-down decision. It's not less government per se, just different government action.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoBut herd immunity should not equal a rising number of cases, which is what mindslight said. Your reply therefore doesn't actually answer the parent's claim.
- ezekg 6y agoYou're right -- I should have said "on their way to real herd-immunity." Their death rate is what you should be watching, not cases.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoWhy the death rate? If people are getting new cases, doesn't that mean that they weren't immune? And if the number of new cases is rising, doesn't that mean that the herd isn't immune? I mean, yes, ultimately we care about deaths. But why do you think that deaths are the measure of herd immunity?