This is just wrong. Test-and-Trace + masks + distancing can suppress coronavirus and allow a partial return to normality until we get treatment/vaccine (which is likely, and not a "miracle"). Talk of "going for herd immunity" is just as bad now as it was in the UK 2 months ago. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1253677705205334017 …
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I'm not saying agree with what I'm saying (well, not what I'm saying, but okay). But it is not something that can be discussed in "who wants to kill grandma" quote-tweeting. The discussion is about how to lower the risk of mass deaths; not letting mass deaths get us through.
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"Natural herd immunity", which you suggest at one point in your thread, does involve killing many people's grandmas unnecessarily! And it's not what epidemiologists are suggesting.
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I understand what the article you linked to is arguing. I understand what the epidemiologists are arguing. What I don't understand is how your tweet about "go for herd immunity" accurately represents their ideas in any way. Seems to me it does not.
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If you take a single tweet and interpret herd immunity to mean UK-style kill the elderly quickly, it doesn't. But that's not what the term means! Of course we are going to go for herd immunity. Full suppression for years may sound great but it has real, huge risks of mass deaths.
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