‘We are already at herd immunity in most places in the country, but the vaccine did not have much to do with it.’
supporting data...?
Glad you asked...? Just skip to the end if you want to go straight to a linked article on herd immunity from Reason Magazine.
You almost have to be willfully ignorant to go along with the leftist narrative these days. The "supporting data" is even being provided by the same sources that have been terrorizing the public for over a year now. But the language being used is being distorted in new and creative ways to make good news seem like bad news.
One has to be a fool not to be skeptical of all numbers about Covid given the abysmal quality of data provided by the record keepers... but even these numbers are now beginning to support the conclusion that most places have achieved effective “herd immunity.
The terminology used by authorities and the media is almost comical in its obvious intent to mislead. These days “new cases” refers mostly to asymptomatic people who have tested positive when being admitted to the hospital for other complaints, needed a test for travel to Hawaii or foreign locations, for various jobs and also to get life insurance, etc... etc... The PCR tests are so sensitive that they pick up many who have just a normal background level of Covid particulate and the majority of positives never get sick or become contagious but most do manage to have an immune response that results in at least some level of immunity. So "new cases" is actually good news not bad.
The “hospitalization rate” is just as misleading, the vast majority are people who went to the hospital for another reason but had a positive result when admitted. And of the “death rate” has been shown to be a complete sham from the beginning. Even my own brother-in-law who was on hospice care for a cancerous brain tumor was counted as a “presumptive covid death”. He died early in the “pandemic” at at time when tests were not available for anyone other than politicians and celebrities. But labling his a "presumptive covid death" was not nearly as deceptive as the large number of people who died from things like automobile accidents, gun shot wounds, stabbings, blunt trauma, etc... and were also called "presumptive covid deaths".
This entire exercise has seen pioneering new ways to mislead, and keep the public alarmed. Even in its final stages we have new and disturbing measures being introduced by those who have no intention of giving up the power and compliance that they have seized over the past year. It is incredible!
The following article is from March 17 and written in a way that enabled it to get past the almost complete media and big tech black out on any perspective that does not fit the leftist narrative. It is now being reported by numerous sources that at least 100 million people and probably far more have developed antibodies independent of the vaccine and according to these same and other sources close to 200 million have received at least the first shot in one of the regimens.
https://reason.com/2021/03/17/how-far-are-we-from-covid-19-herd-immunity/