[ExI] herd immunity?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 16:47:58 UTC 2021


Don't forget, significant portions now have had the vaccine.

Granted, having the vaccine might count toward herd immunity just like
having actually had coronavirus.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:31 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Early in the pandemic about a year ago, a British doctor was on the Beeb
> spoke about herd immunity.  His overall message was kinda negative: that
> humanity was unlikely to defeat covid by any other means than a lotta
> people catching and surviving, resulting in eventual herd immunity.  They
> ripped him a new one!  Nearly universal condemnation, and counter
> suggestions that proper mask wearing and social distancing would suffice,
> but… over time he is looking more and more right on, way back in March 2020.
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> I don’t even know who that was, but if we look at those places which were
> hit really hard, such as UK, USA, France, Italy, etc, those places are
> seeing general declines in new case rates (and were even before the vaccine
> became a major factor.)  In the USA for instance, the new case rate is
> below 20% of its early January peak.
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> It might be wishful thinking on my part, but it appears to me that some
> places are seeing the impact of significant percentages of their
> populations having been exposed and were either non-symptomatic or covid
> presented as an ordinary flu.  If so, some places are already showing what
> looks to me like herd immunity.  Hope so.
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