This bullshit will all fade away now that the election is over. Just wait.
Belgium and Spain were hit harder by the first wave than America, or should I say both were hit harder so far, but America's first wave continues, so in the end we may be hit harder. Anyway, they should be closer to herd immunity than the USA.
But they are both being hit much harder by the second wave than their neighbors. They clearly have little to no herd immunity. How is this possible?
Other Coronaviruses have immunity lengths from 6 months to a few years. They do not have long immunities, like many other viruses. We would expect Covid-19 to fit somewhere in that range.
And we are not sure how rare it is to get Covid-19 twice. Many patients have a bout of it, which clears up, and comes back. That could be two infections, or one that got better and worse. The only way to know for sure is to compare the genomes of the first and second infection, and find they are different. That is extremely rarely done, so it is extremely rarely known. That does not mean it is extremely rare.
Finally, we all talk about immunity, but there is a counter immunity. Coronaviruses tend to make people more susceptible to new infections. It is possible that Covid-19 will do this, and if you get it once, it is MORE likely you will get it again.
This bullshit will all fade away now that the election is over. Just wait.
Darth Omar (11-06-2020)
Covid seems like it could possibly be like a deadly version of the common cold--in that case, there is no herd immunity--ever.
At best, effective treatment may be developed without actual immunization possible.
Or else it could just end the world--no biggie the way the world has been going.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Well I say this for Trump, we certainly are testing the hypothesis.
Sad there will be 500,000 corpses.
My spitball numbers are that 150M have had COVID and we need to get to about 250M we think to get to herd immunity.....and we are in a wave now....PROGRESS!
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
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