> I don't believe herd immunity is any more possible than herd immunity with the flu or common cold. This seems to me to be a very strange thing to say. We kn

> I don't believe herd immunity is any more possible than herd immunity with the flu or common cold. This seems to me to be a very strange thing to say. We know precisely what the pattern is for herd immunity in the case of a coronavirus, because four of them cause what you are calling a "common cold". It's endemic equilibrium. To my knowledge, there is no dispute among experts on this point. So to say that we can't achieve herd immunity because of its similarity to a virus against which we are indeed herd immune is, at best, begging the question. If you have six minutes, this is a very acute description of the endemic equilibrium effect of herd immunity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsmDJYhteQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsmDJYhteQs