Which gets back to all the research regarding "natural herd immunity" and disease which came out of the study of the measles epidemic in Baltimore. Doctors noticed that when measles reached a high level in the community of near 50% then the spread started to slow. However they never were able to reach a level with natural immunity in the community where the spread would stop. This is because diseases can never naturally reach a level of spread in a community where the transmission is stopped. The level that a community must reach even to slow the disease down means that the community has suffered a terrible amount of death and tragedy to get there -- as in the situation with Baltimore and the measles. Or with COVID in highly infected areas. COVID also has the problem that immunity after infection lasts only for a period of months The ONLY way to stop the transmission of a disease and eliminate it is through vaccination which raises the level of "herd immunity" in a community to the level required to stop the disease via antibody immunity generated by the vaccinations.
Influenza mutates quickly. It requires a new vaccine targeting the most likely new strains for each flu season.
I just did a quick check. CA has averaged 40K cases/day in the last week. The total population is 40 MM Imagine that. Percentage-wise, according to our in-house FOOL's assessment of N. Dakota.... California reached herd immunity too. There's a few French phrases that are worth remembering. For good reason. "....roi des cons". What a fucking IDIOT.
1. You lie about shit and make pronouncements out of your ass as if you know something. you are such a fucking idiot...gwBe-lying... You have no idea and no basis to state that herd immunity has never worked. In fact.... any thinking person would realize... it has to have worked otherwise we might all be dead.... Think about the theory of why Europeans viruses killed off natives in America.... Europeans built up immunity... so it was no longer a killer and hardly spread around... But.. you have one sailor introduce it to a population without immunity and.... boom. Really... you are so stupid... for instance.. https://news.miami.edu/stories/2020/09/plagues-pandemics-dispense-lessons-and-change.html Since there was no medical know-how at the time, many of its victims died days after having contracting the disease. The plague would stick around for about six weeks either killing or leaving others with herd immunity, said Thomas. 2. Even in you example about measles... you might argue that the kids had cyclical herd immunity until enough new kids started coming into the age group....
You obviously live in a fantasy world. A world where you think “natural herd immunity” eliminates a disease. All the diseases that were new to native Americans and decimated their populations continued to sweep through Europe and killed many there as well — until vaccines were developed to address these diseases and effectively eliminate them from the face of the earth. Plaque still breaks out across the globe but fortunately can be cured with basic antibiotics. Since human hygiene evolved to the point where we no longer allow rats with fleas to run through our households plague is a minimal issue.
Perfect GWB. This will stop the anti-vaccers. This was so badly needed. Just take away their income and then they now have to decide between homelessness and taking the vaccine. Duh...I think that's a no- brainer.
and then they stop killing... because they run out of victims... who are not immune. Then they come back when there is a population without immunity.
%% IF they outlaw bar-b-q meat+ solar radiation; they may try to require the vaccine. BUT so many Republicans, +Rand Paul types + blacks wary of, Tuskegee experiment, make make requirement very unlikely. Its a small possibility CA or NY would try to require that/but they seem to be losing so many voters + police , not likely they could really enforce much more stupidity+ higher taxes...........................................................................................
Anti-vaxxers are welcome in some states (shown in red). Best for them to move to those states if they have not already done so. Covid-19 is a game changer. In about a year...we'll know if there are correlations with states that allow anti-vaxxers in their infections, hospitalizations, deaths statistics versus those that have higher percentage of residents being vaccinated. wrbtrader