Stand Up for Your Rights, says Professor Knut M. Wittkowski

The tentacle ^ | April 6,20 | By Guest Columnist -

[Hojczyk]

With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated….

We are experiencing all sorts of counterproductive consequences of not well-thought-through policy….

Well, we will see maybe a total of fewer cases—that is possible. However, we will see more cases among the elderly, because we have prevented the school children from creating herd immunity. And so, in the end, we will see more death because the school children don’t die, it’s the elderly people who die, we will see more death because of this social distancing….

If we had herd immunity now, there couldn’t be a second wave in autumn. Herd immunity lasts for a couple of years, typically, and that’s why the last SARS epidemic we had in 2003, it lasted 15 years for enough people to become susceptible again so that a new epidemic could spread of a related virus. Because typically, there is something that requires cross-immunity, so if you were exposed to one of the SARS viruses, you are less likely to fall ill with another SARS virus. So, if we had herd immunity, we wouldn’t have a second wave. However, if we are preventing herd immunity from [

[Craftmore]

chicken pox partys

[Empire_of_Liberty]

chicken pox partys

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Shingles

[Hojczyk]

https://thetentacle.com/2020/04/stand-up-for-your-rights-says-professor-knut-m-wittkowski/

63 posted on April 7, 2020 at 6:12:58 PM EDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian,

This was on a comment post ...so I put it up here

It is a great article

https://ratical.org/PerspectivesOnPandemic-II.html

full transcript

[immadashell]

chicken pox partys

The kids didn’t mind because it meant they would get two weeks without school.

[CJ Wolf]

Shingles. Plus chicken pox wasn’t so bad for kids and it was known over many years...

[Trump.Deplorable]

Except this virus seems to really mess with people’s hearts and lungs

sorry, it just isn’t the flu bro

[familyop]

As the case number decreases, the number of deaths will increase. Cases will be resolved in time to deaths and recoveries. Then the number of deaths can be divided by the number of recoveries. The death rate will probably be quite a bit higher than it appears to be now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology

United States

Cases 397,538

Deaths 12,846

Recovered 21,816

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[metmom]

So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated….

It's going to take longer than 4 weeks for everyone to get infected.

And how does he propose to keep all the elderly completely isolated from any contact at all with the virus?

[walkingdead]

WITTKOWSKI: Well, what people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why. But, what happens is if you flatten the curve, you also prolong, to widen it, and it takes more time. And I don’t see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary.

[walkingdead]

WITTKOWSKI: We had two other SARS viruses before. Or, coronaviruses. It’s not the first coronavirus that comes out, and it won’t be the last. And for all respiratory diseases, we have the same type of an epidemic. If you leave it alone, it comes for two weeks, it peaks, and it goes for two weeks and it’s gone.

[Salamander]

Yep.

/love your user name

[walkingdead]

It is truly amazing. Here we have a man who’s whole life work is in the study of infectious disease and the movement of said viruses through the human population. It must be so incredibly frustrating for him, to watch all the leaders demand exactly the opposite steps to those he knows, through a lifetime of study, are correct.

And if you know this guys bio, it is doubly frustrating. This guy is no slouch.