[ExI] herd immunity?

[Adrian Tymes]

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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