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No it wouldn't
On what do you base this? It did in Italy and in China.
No it wouldn't
It would be nice if people understood what Herd Immunity really was, and what it would mean in the case of covid-19.
I see the Chinese bot has the talking points uploaded properly, Too bad every single sentence in your rent is a lie.
Maybe except for Germany having the lowest infection rates.
Yeah, I agree. Here is what it means:
Herd immunity BEGINS to help with highly infectious agents like Covid when at least 70% of the people in a population are immune. WIthout a vaccine here is the math:
Approximate population of the US: 300,000,000x.70 (70% immunity)=210,000,000x.02 (conservative mortality rate)=4,200,000 dead Americans.
Now, the more infectious the disease the higher the percentage that is required for herd immunity. For measles, which is a bit more infectious, about 90% of a population needs to be immune. Furthermore, no one knows how long lasting immunity will be with Covid (with measles, its lifelong). If people can catch Covid again in a year the whole concept of herd immunity is irrelevant.
Still think herd immunity is a great idea?
I don’t believe the numbers.
And even so 5000 is a very low cost for normal life.
i don't think i've every been around a group of people that are so bad at math.
~ 600 is now > ~ 5,000.
my middle schooler is smarter than a bunch of people here.
Yes I do believe life is sacred. However the government has no affirmative duty to protect your life at infinite expense. If it is a moral command to destroy people’s livliehoods over 5000 deaths then we must lock down every winter for the flu. Because every Individual life is sacred. Now I do believe every individual life is sacred, but the lives of a group of people collectively are not. And that is the only logical mindset if you are going to govern any kind of a successful society. Life is not free of risk. Those 5000 people did not have a nonforfeitable right to survive at all costs.
Anyone being honest will admit that it's genuinely too early to know which strategies will prove to have been most effective in reducing the long-term impacts of covid.
It may well take decades to truly assess and even realize these effects.
When did I suggest I was advocating for herd immunity?
Yes we have a failed diversity experiment in the US.
Yes we have a failed diversity experiment in the US.