Fauci Says 'Herd Immunity' Is Not a Strategy

[brooklynite]

Source: Political Wire

Dr. Anthony Fauci told NBC News that mitigating infection from the coronavirus is “not only an individual responsibility, it’s a societal responsibility.”

He added that herd immunity is “not a fundamental strategy,” and “certainly not my approach. It’s certainly not Dr. Birx’s approach or any of the other people that I know of on that task force.”


Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/02/fauci-says-herd-immunity-is-not-a-strategy/

[sandensea]

1. The right won't let that canard go (as is usually the case with them)

The first prominent politician to openly espouse the herd nonsense, British PM Boris Johnson, has had his cardiovascular health so wrecked after contracting it, that he's resigning later this year for that very reason.

But for Chumpkins, it's all about deflecting blame.

[appalachiablue]

11. Boris and advisor Dominic Cummings

did push herd immunity at the outset. But Boris is back on the reopen train, even after his own covid experience.

I didn't know he had developed cardiac problems, not surprised.

[still_one]

2. Herd immunity has to do with effective vaccination programs, and protecting those

who cannot take the vaccine for one reason or another

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Not for the Goopers. It's thinning the herd of the weaker. Simply don't care about life unless fetus

[Midnight Writer]

3. That herd immunity sure worked for the cold and flu viruses, didn't it?

We have no idea how long your immune system will protect you from reinfection.

We have no idea how this virus will mutate, and how that will affect acquired immunity.

[still_one]

5. A perfect example where herd immunity has been achieved is with the polio vaccine

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Except unfortunately the thing mutated

And when I went overseas back in 1992, they required that I get a booster.

https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/travelers.html

(of course you can add the anti-vaxxers into the mix too )

[OneCrazyDiamond]

7. Ironically,

Polio Vaccination Causes More Infections than Wild Virus
The version of the vaccine given to poorer populations can mutate.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/polio-vaccination-causes-more-infections-than-wild-virus-66778

[still_one]

8. The oral vaccine is not given in the US because it is a live vaccine and can transmit the virus

The Salk vaccine does not cause Polio

[OneCrazyDiamond]

12. Yeah, It is sad that some children are paralysed by something we would never use.

[2naSalit]

9. K&R

Wish this could stay at the top of every page!

[Warpy]

10. Herd immunity can be achieved only by vaccines, anyway

While the more people who have recovered from a disease in the population will slow the spread, the disease will continue to spread and people will continue to die from it and as yet there is no way to predict who will recover easily, who will become very ill, who will be disabled, and who will die.

[Auggie]

13. K&R

About time someone said this

[ck4829]

14. Kick