The weirdest thing about the whole herd immunity through natural infection argument is that it's never happened ever for any disease long-term so it was always a wild idea for COVID-19
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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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.. "recurring outbreaks with a slowly diminishing fatality rate until after months/years:https://mobile.twitter.com/falsel_net/status/1282688267335413764 …
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The problem is that “herd immunity” has a nice ring to it, which is comforting to some people.
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"acceptable levels of deaths per second"
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Well that’s not a very marketable agenda is it?
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Well I may have more domain specific knowledge than most but that’s what I always understood to be meant by endemicity/herd immunity
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Doesn't that translate to 'until it's killed everyone it can?'
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It’s an issue with folks only reading the headline “Herd Immunity” & wanting—beginning early in the pandemic—what they perceived was a simple, painless (b/c believe it won’t hurt me) solution. Now that it’s drug on (as expected) they’re not talking about HI as a solution so much.
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