This level (and frankly, laziness) of gaslighting just proves how these people really feel about the intelligence of the audience it is directed towards. And perhaps they are right in their assessment.
and last i checked scientist were looking at the plateauing of cases there and theorizing that herd immunity has enough of an effect at levels under 20% to control the spread of the virus enough to not overwhelm health care systems. I believe its closer to 30% and that at a number a little higher than that you’d see cases decrease. Not permanently, but enough that Covid at that point really would be not much different than the common flu. Not the same, but not that much different.
gone? it will never be gone. its a respiratory virus. vaccine or no vaccine covid is not going to “disappear”. I really do wish the President would stop saying that. What it will do is follow the natural course and become a seasonal illness much like the flu. People will catch it every year, people will die from it every year, like the flu, with a vaccine and some level of herd immunity it will just be another virus to deal with. One difference here is there doesn’t seem to be as yet, any need for different vaccine strains. If that holds, it will be easier to deal with and be a “lesser flu”.
no, it would not. I know thats the talking point, but that talking point is based on the idea that herd immunity requires 80-85% infection rates. What sweeden and brazil are teaching us is it doesn’t. Something in the 20% range is enough to plateau it, I would imagine the 40% range would see numbers decrease dramatically.
I am not arguing for herd immunity, I want a vaccine, but the dire projections are based on apparently false assumptions. Aside from that, without a vaccine herd immunity is the only way to “beat” this, and all we’re doing is prolonging the inevitable. Without a vaccine or effective therapeutics the exact same number of people will die from COVID, it’ll just take longer to get there. Advances in therapeutics make it worth delaying.
Definition of herd immunity… resistance to the spread of an infectious disease within a population that is based on pre-existing immunity of a high proportion of individuals as a result of previous infection or vaccination.
I didn’t see the interview but if President Trump said that herd immunity protects from viruses like covid he was right and I wouldn’t buy into the mentality of TDS rhetoric… just saying.
When I was in college, during the pledge process of my fraternity we had this very short poem called, “Excuses”. Each organization of the Divine 9 have their own version of this. The version I learned goes…“Excuses are tools of the mentally incompetent, used to build monuments of nothing. Those that use them seldom and rarely amount to a thing. Excuses!”. With this president and all these supporters that defend him, all I’m hearing and reading are excuses. He doesn’t take no responsibility for failures and they don’t hold him accountable, all both do is give excuses.