@NYCMOML&L Actually no we wouldn’t need social distancing. In fact, these types of measures keep the virus active. In order to go on with life, we would actually need young people get catch the virus and become immune from it which social distancing prevents. It is when enough healthy young people survive pandemics that the old and vulnerable are protected. If we keep social distancing (a concept that I will note was never around when we fought and survived every pandemic that came before even far worse ones than this one), we will not only draw out this problem far longer than need be but a lot more of the vulnerable people will die as the people who really could become immune with little cost to themselves would be prevented from doing so and so won’t have built up the immunity needed to prevent the vulnerable people from catching it.
The reason why China has stamped it down is because they managed to build up herd immunity by the time the lockdown occurred. The timing until herd immunity had been reached just before because the death rate is the worst a couple of weeks after enough people have been infected. It’s what we see with most pandemics. It would not surprise me at all if parts of America have also reached herd immunity especially in places like California and New York. We don’t know how many people actually had cov and recovered but who were never tested. Some experts think the virus has been around for longer than we originally thought and think it may explain California’s low death rate. Lots of deaths happened before but they were chalked up to flu or other respiratory illnesses. Look up California may have reached herd immunity.
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@vox_nihili, Let’s agree to disagree. Some of what you said isn’t factual, but your opinion. Herd Immunity( Lol)
“Social Distancing” is what we’re practicing" now! So you do you and the rest will listen to Dr. Faucci! Thanks though!
@"NYCMOML&L Actually herd immunity is a very well known concept and is certainly not MY opinion. Scoff all you want to but you might be better served if you look up perspectives on this pandemic #2 which features a renowned epidemiologist who discusses herd immunity at length. Herd immunity is actually how most pandemics have been fought in our long history of battling viruses. Note there was not a vaccine for Spanish Flu or actually for the vast, vast majority of pandemics that humans have fought and won across many millenia, whose battle scars are imprinted in our DNA.
So yes, feel free to listen to Dr. Fauci if you wish but there are quite a few epidemiologists who would disagree with him. I prefer to look at the bigger picture so I will listen to various experts, including experts who will not only take the death toll of the virus into account but also weigh that against the increased rate of unemployment, suicides, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, child abuse etc. This does not include the pause in future works from delay in research for new cures, inventions, theories etc. due to this lock down. And yes, we are practicing social distancing now but the question should be, do we need to? Look at Sweden vs. Norway. Sweden practiced social distancing, Norway did not. Who has the better results? Hint - Norway has decided to roll back their lockdown.
Rather Sweden did NOT practice social distancing. Norway did.