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Bullseye

Bullseye

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Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.

So, we isolate ourselves and stay at home. As a result, the economy is being devastated. Many people are out of work and unhappy. We accept these inconveniences to allow the medical system to handle the many people who become infected.

But what if I were to tell you that our current isolation strategies may actually result in more deaths from coronavirus itself? I’ll explain.
The only way we are going to beat COVID-19 is by developing something called “herd immunity.” Herd immunity basically means that once a certain percentage of the population develops immunity to a virus, the rest of the population will also be protected. That percentage varies, but is often around 60-70 percent. This is why we don’t need to vaccinate 100 percent of people to eradicate or severely limit the spread of infectious diseases (e.g., polio, smallpox, and measles).
The media and policymakers seem to have accepted that we will depend on herd immunity to defeat COVID-19. If we had a vaccine, everything would be different. But since a vaccine is not available, we must wait for enough people to be exposed and develop immunity.
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It's an interesting idea.
 
Too clever by half. Just stay in your ****ing house.
 
Bullseye said:
Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.



It's an interesting idea.
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OK but unless they caught the virus, they aren't on the safe side of this Red Rover game.
 
Drawdown said:
OK but unless they caught the virus, they aren't on the safe side of this Red Rover game.
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Catching virus is the point. The young and healthy seem to get over the disease and develop an immunity. As the article says when population gets 60-70% have that immunity the virus won't be able to grow.
 
oh, developing an immunity is huge.

a ton of old Republicans will die though. and democrats. so there's that.
 
Bullseye said:
Catching virus is the point. The young and healthy seem to get over the disease and develop an immunity. As the article says when population gets 60-70% have that immunity the virus won't be able to grow.
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Do you have it acceptable that millions will die? (and I am talking about just the US). Is that acceptable? Is it acceptable for your to sicken and die? How about your spouse? Not everyone who develops bad issues has a diagnosed pre condition either, and a number of younger people got sick and died. Is that a cost you are willing to have on your conscience?
 
Bullseye said:
Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.



It's an interesting idea.
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I like this idea! Send the young-ones out there to do battle, while we hang around the house. Hell, we raised them, right? And those college educations were not cheap. So let's put them out there. I think I can get behind this idea ...

:2razz:
 
Bullseye said:
Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.



It's an interesting idea.
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So if I'm lucky enough to be provided a ventilator, and then lucky enough that the ventilator is able to breathe for me, then I may be lucky enough to develop immunity from catching coronavirus again. What garbage is being peddled by the 'save my investment portfolio' crowd. :roll:
 
Bullseye said:
Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.



It's an interesting idea.
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Other countries are doing this and it will be interesting to examine the epidemiological data a year out to see differences in end results of mortality.
 
Chomsky said:
I like this idea! Send the young-ones out there to do battle, while we hang around the house. Hell, we raised them, right? And those college educations were not cheap. So let's put them out there. I think I can get behind this idea ...

:2razz:
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"Hey, kid-- make yourself useful";)
 
CaughtInThe said:
oh, developing an immunity is huge.

a ton of old Republicans will die though. and democrats. so there's that.
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Thank you for rethinking this a bit.
 
Bullseye said:
Catching virus is the point. The young and healthy seem to get over the disease and develop an immunity. As the article says when population gets 60-70% have that immunity the virus won't be able to grow.
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The virus can no longer survive if host after host has immunity.
 
Bullseye said:
Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.



It's an interesting idea.
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I don't know why we didn't do this for smallpox, instead of spending all those years vaccinating people.

I mean, everyone had herd immunity to smallpox thousands of years ago, right? It's not like you would need damn near everyone to be infected all at once or something.

This is why the federalist is the smartest source of opinions ever and they should get some kind of award for that sort of advanced medical acumen.
 
Chomsky said:
I like this idea! Send the young-ones out there to do battle, while we hang around the house. Hell, we raised them, right? And those college educations were not cheap. So let's put them out there. I think I can get behind this idea ...

:2razz:
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tongue meets cheek?
 
Hamish Howl said:
I don't know why we didn't do this for smallpox, instead of spending all those years vaccinating people.

I mean, everyone had herd immunity to smallpox thousands of years ago, right? It's not like you would need damn near everyone to be infected all at once or something.

This is why the federalist is the smartest source of opinions ever and they should get some kind of award for that sort of advanced medical acumen.
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With 30-75% fatality rate, there'd be no herd left! :mrgreen:
 
Chomsky said:
With 30-75% fatality rate, there'd be no herd left! :mrgreen:
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Well, if wrong-ass notions of herd immunity are good enough for Boris Johnson, they're good enough for us.
 
Bullseye said:
Catching virus is the point. The young and healthy seem to get over the disease and develop an immunity. As the article says when population gets 60-70% have that immunity the virus won't be able to grow.
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Then they should have gone drinking in NYC instead of elsewhere if they are wanting to save us from Blue Death instead of just getting their naughty bits wet.
 
Bullseye said:
Remember a few weeks ago when we were all aghast at the wild and crazy behaviors of hoards of college students heading to beaches and resorts to mix and mingle and generally grabass for a week? We tsk,tsks and said "what's wrong with them. Do the think they're indestructible"?

Turns out they may have been in the forefront of establishing a herd immunity, one way many experts think will be the way to conquer coronavirus.

This article explains things far better then I could.



It's an interesting idea.
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Not buying it.

Note, 44 out of 70 is more than half of them.
 
Hamish Howl said:
Well, if wrong-ass notions of herd immunity are good enough for Boris Johnson, they're good enough for us.
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Herd immunity has worked throughout history; when you had 9 kids and only 4 survived into adulthood, you were a grandfather at 30 after your first two wives deceased, and you passed at 34 disfigured and with no teeth and no extant childhood friends. Yeah, those were good times, alright.
 
Drawdown said:
Then they should have gone drinking in NYC instead of elsewhere if they are wanting to save us from Blue Death instead of just getting their naughty bits wet.
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I think you're missing the bigger picture.
 
Drawdown said:
OK but unless they caught the virus, they aren't on the safe side of this Red Rover game.
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But the wet T-shirt contests went off as planned.
 
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