Herd immunity...What a joke! Tell that to the families of the bodies I helped transport today. From what i have personally witnessed this crap will be with us for another year...And we will all be on food stamps!
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Herd immunity...What a joke! Tell that to the families of the bodies I helped transport today. From what i have personally witnessed this crap will be with us for another year...And we will all be on food stamps!
herd immunity - noun - the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.
Are you just willfully being wrong or do you actually not know elementary level vocabulary words? If the latter, why are you posting like you know with absolute fact? If the former, I'm reporting for trolling, making MSU fans look bad, and going off-topic.
Herd immunity is simply a populations resistance to a disease. Herd immunity can be gained through natural selection, developed immunity, or vaccinations for a majority of the population.
Good examples of each:
Natural selection: A large portion of sub-saharan africa's population have developed genetic mutations over the past 300 years that make them partially resistant to malaria. This often presents as sickle-cell anemia or thalassemia in the population but actually impacts the shape of red blood cells which, in turn, impacts the microorganisms ability to "attach" to the red blood cell. These genetics mutations are, of course, as a result of wide-spread infection and death allowing the gene causing this abnormality to be passed on.
Developed Immunity: 1918 flu pandemic. Those that survived that were later immune to H1N1. There are numerous other small-scale examples but it really goes hand-in-hand with natural selection. Both natural selection and developed herd immunity is always accompanied with a higher death toll.
Vaccine based herd immunity: Polio. Measles. etc. that list goes on and on. Vaccine based herd immunity usually requires about 95% of the population to take the vaccine.
How many less tests were done in Florida due to storm? I wanna get excited about their drop in cases, but not sure on number of tests. Deaths going down is good regardless.
Well, what would the alternative be?
Getting to the point that the virus burns itself out is going to be painful, but trying to lock down is going to be painful, and it's not a sure thing that we will make a difference. Maybe we'll get a vaccine 1Q of 2021, maybe we want. Maybe we'll get a vaccine but find out that significant impacts on community transmission kick in at 30%, in which case we inflicted a lot of unnecessary pain for nothing. Maybe we won't get a vaccine and awe'll find out tramission doesn't slow significantly until we get 70% of the populatin infected, in which case we were just screwed regardless, but we probably picked the more painful method.
Something tragic has happened and a lot of people are going to die. Certainly not as bad as it could be, but it's really bad. Just because it's really bad doesn't mean that we can make it better by locking down. WE were probably 17ed the moment China decided they wanted to try to hide it rather than locking down and preventing spread beyond China. But even if China had been open and forthcoming, I'm not sure they realistically could have contained the spread to within China.
Arizona reporting lowest new case total since June 15th. Deaths today are 14 after only 18 yesterday.
Isn't there an old theory about the spread of viruses moving along latitude lines?
New cases in Mississippi have been declining over the past few days. Very good news and I hope the trend continues.
Some information on studies involving kids.
https://www.vox.com/21352597/covid-1...on-new-studies
Strange anecdotal case. My young nephew (under 6 months old) recently tested positive. His mom took him because he was showing symptoms of a cold (mild fever, runny nose, sneeze). Now, this kiddo was born back in March right in the teeth of the pandemic fear sweeping the nation. He's been kept at home since the beginning of this. Literally, hasn't left home since he was brought home from the hospital.
As such...only 5 people have come into contact with him. His parents and their parents. No one else has been allowed to the house and they all wear masks and wash hands constantly. Of course, once he tested positive all of them had to be tested. Here's the twist...none of them tested positive. Everyone is scratching their heads over how this little guy got it.