Modest proposal: before using the term "herd immunity" as a policy option people should practice what they preach and first infect themselves and family members with COVID-19
As to a mitigation strategy, I'm a co-author on a paper that explicitly argues that in the case of an uncontrolled outbreak mitigating the impact on high risk populations would reduce the death tollhttps://www.medrxiv.org/node/94489.external-links.html …
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However, this is not a "herd immunity" approach, and still requires a very substantial loss of life/morbidity
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It is important to explicitly acknowledge the roles of immunity (even when imperfect), because it means that the impacts of our actions are no longer a monotone function of our "effort", which means our responses require careful long-term thinking.
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