12 Monkeys was the first thing I thought of in early March. A movie I hated as a kid and grew on me as I got older.

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Immunity from what?

Please go spend a couple of hours reading about herd immunity and watching some models that demonstrate the phenomenon. It’s about transmission vectors and decreasing the likelihood that someone who is not immune catching it due to the fact that a increasing percentage of people they come in contact with are immune.

What is it? They don’t die. The vent doesn’t cure them, but it certainly keeps a percentage of them alive.

Coronavirus. Those who are able will develop antibodies that fight it as it passes through us annually or biannually.

sars-cov-2. Why do you keep asking the same question that has been answered?

Because it’s a damn discussion forum.

If herd immunity from death is your goal, why didn’t you let it run rampant?

Prove it. What percentage?

You aren’t going to build immunity from being infected.

We aren’t immune to the cold.

Right. You will still get it. It just won’t …

Like the flu.

Stock market hangs around 20k. Businesses re-open but lower activity. Cruise ship business is done.

Tension and unease with China…this might even be bi-partisan because everyone realizes we are very dependent on them but they are not a reliable supplier. Economy cools.

Election campaign will be UGLIER than we anticipated because there is much new alternate reality to spin and twist. Fortunately for POUTS, Biden has virtually disappeared but so has everything else in the news. Half of an MLB season. I will probably go to the Indy 500 as I’ve done for decades but it will be in August. Can’t wait.

That’s not discussing anything. Asking the same question that has been answered is simply being obtuse.

Or the flu or any other virus “going around”.

It hasn’t been answered. It is a myth that herd immunity prevents you from contracting a virus.

No. Not the question. We have all that now and haven’t “peaked” yet.

Herd immunity happens when those who can’t fight it die and don’t produce anymore offspring thus those genetic traits are gone, leaving those with genetics that can.

Then why are you answering.

Which takes at least one generation. Are we going to stay in lock down for a generation?

For me the trigger point for exit this stage is the ability to test/track/isolate on a scale needed to deal with flare ups without more excessive crackdowns.

Effective therapies to cut short/eliminate hospital stays would also be useful.

Long term win is a vaccine that works like the flu.

Even then we are going to have to get used to some changes like screenings going into large crowd venues/airports/etc

I would hope these details are being discussed now.

This is what I’m thinking as well…herd immunity. I don’t think there is any other way around this. Again not medical expert nor do I pretend to be one.