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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What you’re describing sounds an awful lot like “herd immunity”.

I thought that was bogus.[/quote]

Herd immunity is not bogus. It is a very bad idea to achieve this by letting the virus run rampant, because we will incur millions of deaths and millions more severe illnesses before reaching that point. And, most vaccines provide better immunity than the antibodies produced by the disease.  I mean, do you want herd immunity from polio by vaccine or by everyone getting polio?!!

Right now, we have a ton of people who are hosting and replicating the virus and a ton of potential hosts. If you vaccinate 90% of the population, most of those will not be able to spread the virus and thus the virus cannot keep successfully spreading and sickening and killing people.  This does not mean it is entirely wiped out (like measles and polio) but right now the virus is like someone who just walked into a huge buffet and can have whatever they want for free, no limits.

Finally, people do get flu shots yearly. This is not a one and done deal. Until covid is controlled, people may have to re-up vaccines, but right now there is not a huge amount of evidence pointing to easy reinfection (and for some people it is a question of the same infection versus reinfection, but they can do genetic testing to figure that out).

by the way, i work in the arts. I am not in science or a researcher, this is basic stuff you should get from reading a newspaper. or looking at a vetted website. [/quote]

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