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To: dp0622

I keep reading about this herd immunity but we will never get that all hiding at home.
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You have pointed out the fatal flaw in this supposed expert’s argument. In a nutshell he said:

It’s a crisis.
It’s over.

Well he is half right. We have a population of about 330,000,000. We have identified 525,000 people who are infected. We know some people have very minor symptoms and never get counted. So the 525,000 understates the size of “the herd”.

So go up by a factor of 100 to 52,500,000 and you still don’t have herd immunity. That takes about 60% of 330,000,000 or a little under 200,000,000 cases.

The herd, safe treatments and vaccines will eventually save us but to claim it’s over is just silly and very unprofessional.


9 posted on 04/12/2020 9:13:12 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: InterceptPoint
to claim it’s over is just silly and very unprofessional.

I think he's far more qualified x 100 to make that assessment than you..........

43 posted on 04/13/2020 5:08:46 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (How did I survive the Swine flu and the killer flu of 2017-18 without govt. help?)
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