Like, sure, pandemics died out - eventually most diseases became endemic and killed only a small number of people each year But that's definitely what's been bandied about as herd immunity
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Imagine if instead of "herd immunity" the message had been "recurring outbreaks with a slowly diminishing fatality rate until after months/years the number of yearly deaths would get low enough to not bother any more"
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Sorry, second tweet should read definitely NOT what's been bandied around
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"Prior to COVID-19 all these diseases had a metastable endemic pattern with regular yearly fluctuations!" Yes, exactly
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For example, imagine if the Great Barrington nonsense had said "yearly outbreaks with large epidemics until virtually the entire population has had COVID-19 at least once" instead of "herd immunity" Probably would've been a bit less popular
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I remember tweeting a year ago that we never reached natural herd immunity with smallpox, and so why does anyone think it can be achieved with COVID? Is a certain Stanford epidemiologist so ignorant of history?
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At least in the Middle Ages, they were smart enough not to promote a "herd immunity strategy" for plague epidemics. Sadly, history will judge us harshly for this comedy of errors
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