Why herd immunity must not be considered as policy: horrifying statistic

[tblue37]

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[CountAllVotes]

1. If anyone knows, Laurie Garrett does

& recommend!!

[SamKnause]

2. Too late.

Not only has it been considered, it is the current policy in this country.

Trump should face hard time for his non action fighting Covid.

He should have a mask permanently attached to his face.

All the EVIL mother fucker had to do was tell his cult to wear masks.

[Hortensis]

5. "Herd immunity" was just a paper excuse belatedly taped over the reality

that Trump had obviously failed to try to halt what became a pandemic. As the election approached. We'd of course be at least years and a couple million deaths from achieving it -- if it was achievable at all, highly questionable.

ALSO, it's a distraction from the reality that the Republicans in both the WH and congress literally refused to use a giant machine waiting to activate to contain and smother this virus before it became pandemic. As we'd always done before. Maddow and others briefly mentioned the need for investigations, later, with all attention first on stopping the deaths.

[Hortensis]

3. Not to worry. We elected a Democratic president, and

DEMOCRATS DON'T DO HOLOCAUSTS. Depraved indifference to life in the WH and national policies promoting genocidal "cleansing" of society end at noon on January 20, 2021.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Herd immunity doesn't come about by some percentage of people getting a disease.

It comes about from vaccinating.

If herd immunity were that easy to achieve, then things like, measles, mumps, chicken pox, even smallpox would not have been constantly infecting large numbers of people.

Perhaps, if literally every single person on the planet were to get this and either die or recover, then it would have no where to go and disappear. But that's not going to happen.

[stopdiggin]

6. herd immunity is not a rational short term goal

and, with respect --
The graphic presented is really underwhelming as an argument. Essentially saying, "old and sick people suffer worse outcomes." Yeah. We knew that.

We need to selling negative health outcomes (immediate and chronic) from infections on the the country as a whole. Young, old, healthy, compromised, schools, day-care, health-care, military, sports .... It's a negative health outcome for the COUNTRY.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Not to mention that people can get infected AGAIN.

That boat of hope has sailed away.

[central scrutinizer]

8. The death total is only part of the story

How many “survivors” are facing years of serious complications, severe limitations, shortened life spans?