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This seems to mischaracterize "herd immunity," which as a concept doesn't characterize the method of immunization. Infection is one way; vaccination is another;
by adolph 5y ago
This seems to mischaracterize "herd immunity," which as a concept doesn't characterize the method of immunization. Infection is one way; vaccination is another; there's maternal; there's mutation [0].
Should the entire population be infected (what some ignorant idiots call “herd immunity”)
From PubMed [1]: "Herd immunity exists when sufficient numbers of animals in a group or population have immunity against an agent such that the likelihood of an effective contact between diseased and susceptible individuals is reduced."
0. https://www.livescience.com/9983-immune-hiv.html https://www.livescience.com/9983-immune-hiv.html
1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31590904/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31590904/
- peteradio 5y agoI couldn't really find a single good argument put forth anywhere in the article that this is indeed "Not an old person problem." So in a sense Nassim has deftly used proof by contrapositive to prove that indeed Covid-19 is an old person problem, i.e. that if the best arguments are shitty then the purported proof is negated.