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Originally Posted by Adder
ETA: Nowhere is on a meaningful path to herd immunity, which we still don't know is even possible. This virus seems to fit in a spot where it's not transmissible enough to quickly spread through the population and not deadly enough to burn itself out. Dr. Osterholm has been suggesting that we may need to think about this as more like HIV than influenza (i.e., so transmissible that it peaks and then dies down because there are no more people to infect) for awhile. That means continuing efforts to manage the spread until there is a vaccine.
We missed out opportunity for that to mean mostly open with masks, temperature screens, testing, tracing and isolation, because we didn't take it seriously for month when we had the chance.
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You don’t know that herd immunity cannot be achieved. You’re using conjecture as fact. (I don’t know if it can be, but herd immunity to viruses is a proven thing, so it can happen, whereas the rarity of a virus not being susceptible to herd immunity is a novel and more likely improbable notion.)
On your second point, revisit my comment on geography. This virus hasn’t impacted my life except as to going to bars and restaurants and having to set up an educational pod for schooling. I’m living pretty much the same life, only now with a mask. If I lived in FL, or NYC a few months ago, it’d be different. But I don’t. And there are probably over a hundred million like me. This isn’t an apocalypse except for in certain geographic locales.
ETA: I feel bad for the locales that acquire it thru no fault (denser areas). I feel no sympathy for the people who think it’s “freedom” to run around without a mask.
