“Herd immunity“ is just another name for “natural immunity“ - and “natural immunity“ is just a term for any immunity that is stimulated by natural exposure the population, rather than by artificial exposure in a lab (vaccine).
The important thing to remember is that “natural immunity” is the only kind of immunity we have. There is no man-made alternative to the human body’s ability to develop antibodies.
Man-made vaccines developed in the lab still rely on the same principle of stimulating the human body’s natural immunity through exposure - the difference is that the exposure process takes place in a lab with test subjects rather than naturally through the “herd”.
Each of us is a complex walking laboratory, perfected over ten million years of evolution (natural selection).
So, before we discount “natural herd immunity” as some crackpot anti-science alternative medicine idea, we should remember that man-made vaccine technology relies 100% on the body’s immunity system to work. 100%!
Let that sink in: It is our bodies that ultimately save us, even with a vaccine. In fact, a vaccine’s effectiveness is measured by how it compares to natural immunity.
To be fair, there are certain advantages to man being able to control the process of exposure via vaccine technology. It allows for monitoring progress under controlled conditions. It allows us to track who is immunized and who is not.
For liberty-loving Americans there are some disturbing aspects of vaccine vs. natural (herd) approach to immunity as well. Obviously, vaccine technology is far more conducive to central planning and socialist agendas than is natural immunity. You can’t control people even letting them do whatever they want. Already, leftists are talking about requiring under-the-skin chips to track who has been immunized. Seriously?
And let’s not forget the profit motive. Big Pharma owns much of the DC bureaucracy and Ivy League academia - they can patent vaccines but they can’t make a dime on herd immunity.
As we decide which scientists to listen to, we should always follow the money.
“Herd” immunity is the immunity a population has that has either innate or acquired immunity. Acquired immunity comes from antibodies, which could be from vaccines or having had the illness already.